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326 CHIUSI.—The City. [chap. l.
Ohiusi, once the proud capital of Porsena, crests an olive-
clad eminence on the right; and on the other hand is a
long range of wooded heights studded with towns—
Cetona, with its impending castle nearest the eye; Sar-
teano, on the hill-brow beyond ; still farther, Chianciano
and Montepulciano, apparently blended into one—all re-
presentatives of Etruscan towns, and all nestling beneath
the majestic Alpine mass of Monte Cetona.1
Citta la Pieve retains no traces of remote antiquity,
though Etruscan urns have been found in its neighbour-
hood.2 But as it contains numerous works of Pietro
Perugino, who was born here, to say nothing of his genuine
letters and paint-pots, the traveller from Orvieto to Chiusi
will probably be induced to halt for the night. Let him
eschew the inn called La Luna, which is a mere bettola,
and knock at an opposite house with the name of " Valen-
tini" over the door, where he will find bed and board,
average comfort, and abundant attention.
It is but six miles from La Pieve to Chiusi, and the road
is delightful, through woods of brave old oaks, baring their
lichen-clad boughs to the bright winter sky ; the luxuriant
vale of Chiana, and the broad Thrasymene with its
islands, in the distance; and the Apennines stretching
their snow half across the horizon. The frontier is crossed
in the valley below Chiusi.3
1 The road from Pitigliano to Chiusi houses. The entire distance may be
is hardly carriageable throughout. It done in one day, by starting early. The
runs through Sorano, crosses the high- Baths of San Caseiano are proved by
road to Florence near the PonteCentino, numerous remains to be of ancient date,
skirts the base of the wild mountain of Repetti (I. p. 225; V. p. 25) takes them
Radicdfani, through San Caseiano de' for the Fontes Clusini mentioned by
Bagni and Cetona, to Chiusi. Another Horace (Epist. I. 15, 9).
track runs through Acquapendente, but 2 Lanzi, Sagg. II. p. 53. Its name,
is to be avoided because it enters the derived from Civitas Plebis, seems also
Roman territory, and exposes the tra- to indicate a classical origin,
veller to the annoyance of two custom- 3 Chiusi is 40 miles from Arezzo,
Ohiusi, once the proud capital of Porsena, crests an olive-
clad eminence on the right; and on the other hand is a
long range of wooded heights studded with towns—
Cetona, with its impending castle nearest the eye; Sar-
teano, on the hill-brow beyond ; still farther, Chianciano
and Montepulciano, apparently blended into one—all re-
presentatives of Etruscan towns, and all nestling beneath
the majestic Alpine mass of Monte Cetona.1
Citta la Pieve retains no traces of remote antiquity,
though Etruscan urns have been found in its neighbour-
hood.2 But as it contains numerous works of Pietro
Perugino, who was born here, to say nothing of his genuine
letters and paint-pots, the traveller from Orvieto to Chiusi
will probably be induced to halt for the night. Let him
eschew the inn called La Luna, which is a mere bettola,
and knock at an opposite house with the name of " Valen-
tini" over the door, where he will find bed and board,
average comfort, and abundant attention.
It is but six miles from La Pieve to Chiusi, and the road
is delightful, through woods of brave old oaks, baring their
lichen-clad boughs to the bright winter sky ; the luxuriant
vale of Chiana, and the broad Thrasymene with its
islands, in the distance; and the Apennines stretching
their snow half across the horizon. The frontier is crossed
in the valley below Chiusi.3
1 The road from Pitigliano to Chiusi houses. The entire distance may be
is hardly carriageable throughout. It done in one day, by starting early. The
runs through Sorano, crosses the high- Baths of San Caseiano are proved by
road to Florence near the PonteCentino, numerous remains to be of ancient date,
skirts the base of the wild mountain of Repetti (I. p. 225; V. p. 25) takes them
Radicdfani, through San Caseiano de' for the Fontes Clusini mentioned by
Bagni and Cetona, to Chiusi. Another Horace (Epist. I. 15, 9).
track runs through Acquapendente, but 2 Lanzi, Sagg. II. p. 53. Its name,
is to be avoided because it enters the derived from Civitas Plebis, seems also
Roman territory, and exposes the tra- to indicate a classical origin,
veller to the annoyance of two custom- 3 Chiusi is 40 miles from Arezzo,