engelbergs

Updated: May 2, 2025

Why, then, should monks, so persuaded of the riddle of the earth, have placed themselves in scenes so beautiful? Why rose the Camaldolis and Chartreuses over Europe? white convents on the brows of lofty hills, among the rustling boughs of Vallombrosas, in the grassy meadows of Engelbergs, always the eyries of Nature's lovers, men smitten with the loveliness of earth?

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