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But he wrote very many charming little poems breathing the warmest aspirations of the somewhat extreme gauche of that day, especially some stornelli after the Tuscan fashion, which met with a very wide and warm acceptance. I remember one extremely happy, the refrain of which still runs in my head. It is written on the newly-adopted Italian tricolour flag.
A village is gained; he turns not aside, but dashes madly through the little street formed by the huts and cottages of the Tuscan vine-dressers. A little child is in his path a sweet, blooming, ruddy, noble boy; with violet-colored eyes and flaxen hair disporting merrily at a short distance from his parents, who are seated at the threshold of their dwelling.
But the sun of Concini was not destined to set so soon; and although he had fierce enemies, he still possessed zealous friends; the more zealous, perhaps, because they had accurately read the character of the Tuscan Princess, and were well aware that she had so long leant upon others that she had at last become incapable of perfect self-reliance.
Lord Normanby’s trustworthy correspondent says, moreover, in the letter referred to, that the Tuscan troops being kept at a distance from Tuscany, the people dreaded making any demonstration, being well aware that an imprudent word would be punished with imprisonment. “At Leghorn, however, some private meetings were held, at which influential persons were present. Public meetings are impossible.
To persons, however, who are ready to think with me that we may be trained to art in fields and on hillsides, the essential Tuscan character of Pier della Francesca is brought home quite as strongly by the particular satisfaction with which we recognise his pictures in some unlikely place, say a Northern gallery.
'Gods of our fathers, gods of our country, god of our city, goddess of our hearths who watchest over Tuscan Tiber and Roman Palatine, forbid not this last saviour to succour our fallen generation. Our blood has flowed too long. We have paid in full for the sins of our forefathers the broken faith of ancient Troy.... 'The bonds are broken between neighbour cities and they meet in arms.
"... the Moon, whose orb The Tuscan artist views through optic glass At evening from the top of Fesolé, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe." The moon is probably the most interesting of all telescopic objects. This arises from its comparative nearness to the earth.
You shall see Florence, "The brightest star of star-bright Italy." You shall be stirred by the craggy grandeur of the Apennines, and soothed by the living green of the Tuscan vales, with their hoar castles, their olives, their dark cypresses, and their forests, "Where beside his leafy hold The sullen boar hath heard the distant horn, And whets his tusks against the gnarled thorn."
As to the migrations of bodies of Etruscans to Rome, we find an isolated statement drawn from Tuscan annals, that a Tuscan band, led by Caelius Vivenna of Volsinii and after his death by his faithful companion Mastarna, was conducted by the latter to Rome.
She published a volume on the Tuscan revolution, which was very favourably received. The critic has very accurately, and, it may be said, graphically, assigned its true value and character to the book.
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