luccae

Updated: June 27, 2025

Greatest of great ladies is Ilaria, potens Luccae, sleeping easily, with chin firmly rounded to the vault, where she has slept for five hundred years, and still a power in Lucca of the silver planes. It was a white-hot September day I went to pay my devotions to her shrine.

Maurice Henry Hewlett - Earthwork out of Tuscany: Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett