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Updated: May 18, 2025
This piety was always a <I>madonnina</I>, the protectress of the passage a quaint figure of the Virgin with the red spark of a lamp at her feet. The lamps appear for the most part to have gone out, and the images doubtless have been sold for <I>bric-a- brac</I>. The ferrymen, for aught I know, are converted to Nihilism a faith consistent happily with a good stroke of business.
Beyond the oratory of San Mauro, where the mule-path to the convents turns to the left, running along the side of the hill towards the Madonnina dell' Oro, and another mule-path leads straight into the ravine, past the ruins of the Baths of Nero, Benedetto disengaged himself gently from the monk's arm, and stopped. "Listen, Padre," said he; "I must speak with you; perhaps at some length."
No harm to him, lady; but to you obeying him, destruction, death!" Molly stared. Her breath came hollow from her mouth. "Death, Grifone?" she faltered, and then pored over his face again. He nodded his words into her. "Death, Madonnina." The girl tottered to her feet had to balance like a rope-dancer to keep upon them. "But then but then O Saviour!" She threw her arms up.
It is by Porta S. Pietro that we enter Lucca, coming by rail from Pistoja, and from Pisa too, then crossing La Madonnina and Corso Garibaldi by Via Nazionale, we come almost at once into Piazza Giglio, where the old Palazzo Arnolfi stands a building of the sixteenth century that is now Albergo Universo.
Something in this "primitive" art has been lost when we come to Angelico, some almost morbid loveliness that you may find even yet in the air about Perugia and Siena, in the delicate flowers there, the honeysuckle which the country people call le manine della Madonnina the little hands of the Virgin, and even in the people sometimes, in their soft gestures and dreamy looks.
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