DOI chapter:
II. Sienese villas
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SIENESE VILLAS
unchanging verdure. Imagination must people the
stage with the sylvan figures of the Aminta or the
Pastor Fido, and must place on the encircling seats a
company of nobil donne in pearls and satin, with their
cavaliers in the black Spanish habit and falling lace
collar which Vandyke has immortalized in his Genoese
portraits; and the remembrance of this leafy stage will
lend new life to the reading of the Italian pastorals, and
throw a brighter sunlight over the woodland comedies
of Shakspeare.
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unchanging verdure. Imagination must people the
stage with the sylvan figures of the Aminta or the
Pastor Fido, and must place on the encircling seats a
company of nobil donne in pearls and satin, with their
cavaliers in the black Spanish habit and falling lace
collar which Vandyke has immortalized in his Genoese
portraits; and the remembrance of this leafy stage will
lend new life to the reading of the Italian pastorals, and
throw a brighter sunlight over the woodland comedies
of Shakspeare.
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