portantini

Updated: May 16, 2025

We took a delightful apartment over the heads of the whole world in the highest house of the Bagni Caldi, where only the donkeys and the portantini can penetrate, and where we sit at the open windows and hear nothing but the cicale. Not a mosquito! think of that!

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)