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In the middle of this spacious plateau is a bronze reproduction of his David, and it is good to see it, from the cafe behind it, rising head and shoulders above the highest Apennines. S. Miniato, the church on the hill-top above the Piazzale Michelangelo, deserves many visits.
You can come with me, and we will stay beside her and say prayers." "Yes, yes. Oh, Olive, that is a good idea." The two came out into the street together and spread the white linen covering carefully over the stark body before they knelt, one on each side. Of the thousands who had filled the Piazzale at sunset hundreds came now to see them mourning the broken thing that lay between.
The bronze copy of Michelangelo's David, in the Piazzale below the church, blackened in perfect relief against the pink sky and then faded against the grey while they talked.
One story is that he hid in the church tower of S. Niccolò, below what is now the Piazzale dedicated to his memory. Wherever he was, he was proclaimed an outlaw, and then, on Florence finding that she could not do without him, was pardoned, and so returned, the city meanwhile having surrendered and the Medici again being restored to power.
Just beyond the Roman Gate begins the long Viale dei Colli, Avenue of the Hills, which climbs and winds, broad, shady, quiet, between lines of gardens and villas, occupied largely by foreigners, to the Piazzale, whence Michelangelo's boyish colossus gazes with a slight frown across Florence, outspread at his feet. Mr.
From the Piazzale Michelangelo you not only have a fine panoramic view of the city of this great man in its principal features not so vastly different from the Florence of his day, although of course larger and with certain modern additions, such as factory chimneys, railway lines, and so forth but you can see the remains of the fortifications which he constructed in 1529, and which kept the Imperial troops at bay for nearly a year.
The human form divine and waxen Galileo Bianca Capella A faithful Grand Duke S. Spirito The Carmine Masaccio's place in art Leonardo's summary The S. Peter frescoes The Pitti side Romola A little country walk The ancient wall The Piazzale Michelangelo An evening prospect S. Miniato Antonio Rossellino's masterpiece The story of S. Gualberto A city of the dead The reluctant departure.
But just now let us walk or ride up the long winding Viale Macchiavelli, which curves among the villas behind the Boboli Gardens, to the Piazzale Michelangelo and S. Miniato. The Piazzale Michelangelo is one of the few modern tributes of Florence to her illustrious makers.
From so many windows in Florence, along so many streets, from so many loggias and towers, and perhaps, above all, from the Piazzale di Michelangelo, Fiesole is to be seen on her hill, with the beautiful campanile of her church in the dip between the two eminences, that very soon one comes to feel that this surely is the promised land.
Across the river the declining sun cast a rosy light on the great glossy hedges and clipped foliage of the Boboli Gardens; far to the left the paved height of the Piazzale Michelangelo rose above the somber sweep of roofs and bridges; an aged bell rang harshly and mingled with the inconsequential clatter on the Lungarno.
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