apennine-girdled

Updated: June 18, 2025

Sea-life and rusticity strike a different note from that of those Apennine-girdled seats of dead civilisation, in which nations, arts, and religions have gone by and left but few traces, some wrecks of giant walls, some excavated tombs, some shrines, where monks still sing and pray above the relics of the founders of once world-shaking, now almost forgotten, orders.

John Addington Symonds - Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series