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Updated: October 8, 2025
I do so the more willingly, because his career is illustrative, after an odd fashion, of contemporary Italian life. He was the son of a small farmer, not far from Sienna, and grew up in daily contact with vine-dressers and olive-gatherers, living upon the hard Tuscan fare of macaroni and maroon-nuts, with a cutlet of lean mutton once a day, and a pint of sour Tuscan wine.
The whirring of the wild bird's wing upon the moor, the bursting of the chase from cover, the creaking of the harvest wain the song of the vine-dressers the laugh of the olive-gatherers in every land where these sounds are heard, they make a child once more of the statesman who may for once have come forth to hear them.
Occasionally, the olive-gatherers had spread a white cloth beneath the tree, and were shaking the very ripe fruit down; but there was neither jollity nor romance about the process. The olive is a tree of association, but that is all.
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