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490 CONCLUSION.
The one lives in spirit and in song—the wide earth
resounds with her history, whilst her existence is
treated as a dream; the other lives in her rocks, her
walls, and in her tomhs, whilst the fame of her
heroes and the names of her artists are alike uncared
for and unknown. Cortona was dead as the home
of freedom, when Hannibal occupied her ground.
From the Piazza, a street runs directly south, and
leads to a double gate in the ancient wall, now
almost filled up, or built up, and converted into a
common sewer. Continuing the circuit, Porta San
Domenico and Porta San Agostino are also ancient.
The upper part of the wall has been renewed since
the thirteenth century, and is called Muro Senesi,
because rebuilt by the people of Sienna, the allies of
Cortona, in those stormy days when it was destroyed,
for liberty's sake, by the republic of Arezzo. A por-
tion of Etruscan masonry of immense stones is to
be seen near the Porta Montanina, another below
the castle, and another close to the spedale or hos-
pital, and the foundation of the Palazzo Laparelli.
The museums, which must be visited, are the Museo
Corazzi, and the Museo Venuti—besides the pub-
lic museum of the academy. About half a mile
from the Porta San Agostino, without the town, is a
curious Etruscan building, called the Grotta of Pit-
tagora; it seems to have been an ancient sepulchre,
and somewhere in the same direction there is ano-
ther most extraordinary building, which is called
Joseph's Well—Pozzo di Giuseppe. We were not
told of it until after we had left Cortona in 1839, but
The one lives in spirit and in song—the wide earth
resounds with her history, whilst her existence is
treated as a dream; the other lives in her rocks, her
walls, and in her tomhs, whilst the fame of her
heroes and the names of her artists are alike uncared
for and unknown. Cortona was dead as the home
of freedom, when Hannibal occupied her ground.
From the Piazza, a street runs directly south, and
leads to a double gate in the ancient wall, now
almost filled up, or built up, and converted into a
common sewer. Continuing the circuit, Porta San
Domenico and Porta San Agostino are also ancient.
The upper part of the wall has been renewed since
the thirteenth century, and is called Muro Senesi,
because rebuilt by the people of Sienna, the allies of
Cortona, in those stormy days when it was destroyed,
for liberty's sake, by the republic of Arezzo. A por-
tion of Etruscan masonry of immense stones is to
be seen near the Porta Montanina, another below
the castle, and another close to the spedale or hos-
pital, and the foundation of the Palazzo Laparelli.
The museums, which must be visited, are the Museo
Corazzi, and the Museo Venuti—besides the pub-
lic museum of the academy. About half a mile
from the Porta San Agostino, without the town, is a
curious Etruscan building, called the Grotta of Pit-
tagora; it seems to have been an ancient sepulchre,
and somewhere in the same direction there is ano-
ther most extraordinary building, which is called
Joseph's Well—Pozzo di Giuseppe. We were not
told of it until after we had left Cortona in 1839, but