montisci

Updated: May 10, 2025

But tell me, God keep thee merry, is there none of those wonder-working stones to be found in these parts? 'Ay is there, answered Maso; 'there be two kinds of stones of very great virtue found here; the first are the grits of Settignano and Montisci, by virtue whereof, when they are wrought into millstones, flour is made; wherefore it is said in those parts that grace cometh from God and millstones from Montisci; but there is such great plenty of these grits that they are as little prized with us as emeralds with the folk over yonder, where they have mountains of them bigger than Mount Morello, which shine in the middle of the night, I warrant thee.

Giovanni Boccaccio - The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio