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Updated: June 29, 2025
Ought I to say here that, on the occasion of a second visit to Arqu
When we began to climb the hill to Arqu
We had to go to Padua by railway, and take carriage thence to Arqu
Oh beauty that will not let itself be told! Could I not take warning from another, and refrain from this fruitless effort of description? A friend in Padua had lent me Disraeli's "Venetia," because a passage of the story occurs in Petrarch's house at Arqu
Certainly the first response was not encouraging, but the last revealed that even to the heavy and clouded soul of this lout the divine fame of the poet had penetrated and he a lout in the village where Petrarch lived and ought to be first forgotten. He did not know when Petrarch had lived there, a year ago, perhaps, or many centuries, but he knew that Petrarch was a poet. A weight of doubt was lifted from my spirit, and I responded cheerfully to some observations on the weather offered by a rustic matron who was pitching manure on the little hill-slope near the house. When, at last, the custodian came and opened the gate to us, we entered a little grassy yard from which a flight of steps led to Petrarch's door. A few flowers grew wild among the grass, and a fig-tree leaned its boughs against the wall. The figs on it were green, though they hung ripe and blackening on every other tree in Arqu
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