quaintly-storied

Updated: June 4, 2025

But one should speak of them all gently and I do, from my soul; for their labour, by their lights, has wrought a precious heritage of still-living colour and rich figure-peopled shadow for the echoing chambers of their old civic fortress. The faded frescoes cover the walls like quaintly-storied tapestries; in one way or another they cast their spell.

Henry James - Italian Hours