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Updated: June 16, 2025
But Susanna concentrated her attention upon a part of the shore, perhaps half a mile distant, and half a mile to the east of Vallanza, where the grey-green of the prevailing olives was broken by the dark-green of a garden. The garden ran out into the bay a little, forming a point.
Paul, and gave him as the emblem of his authority a sword in the hilt of which was fixed a thorn of gold. This holy relic, under the name of the Spina d'Oro, is preserved, for the reverence of the faithful. In the cathedral of the city of Vallanza, where the descendants of St.
The gardener plucked many flowers for them, so that they returned to Vallanza with armfuls of roses, lilies, oleanders, and jessamine.
It is thanks to him, presumably, that even at out-of-the-way Vallanza there exists a decent inn. Our friends' sitting-room was on the first floor, a corner room, having two sets of windows. Paul and St.
They have another palace in the town of Vallanza, their winter palace, the Palazzo Rosso; and a splendid old mediaeval castle, Castel San Guido, on the hill behind the town; and two or three delightful villas in different parts of the island. A highly enviable family, are they not? Orange-trees are in blossom at Sampaolo the whole year round, in blossom and in fruit at the same time.
"You preach a very eloquent sermon," said Anthony, "and in principle I acknowledge its soundness. But in practice there is just absolutely nothing the Conte di Sampaolo can do." "He can go to Vallanza, and marry his cousin," reiterated she. "Thus the name and the estates would be brought together again, and the tradition would be renewed."
Then the King of Sardinia was elected tyrant of both islands, and the government was removed from Vallanza to Turin. That was many years ago, fifty years ago. When the Pope died, the government was again removed, and now it is at Rome." "Oh? Is the Pope dead?" Adrian questioned. "Che sì, Signore dupo lung' anni," the old man assured him.
Under the old régime, for example," she illustrated, "Vallanza was a free port, now we have to pay both a national duty and a municipal duty on exports as well as imports; nothing was taxed but land, and that very lightly now nearly everything is taxed, even salt, even a working-man's tools, even a peasant's necessary donkey, so that out of every lira earned the government takes from forty to sixty centimes; the fisheries of Sampaolo, which are very valuable, were reserved for the Sampaolesi, now they are open to all Italy, and Sampaolo, an island, cannot compete with Ancona, on the railway.
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