Byways in Southern Tuscany
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This was done and when he beheld his daughter and her beautiful children he was overcome with emotion and, embracing them all with tears, forgave them and acknowl- edged them as his kin. The oldest son he made Count of Sarteano with much land thereto and bestowed upon all of them rich gifts of diverse kinds. So Piero and his family left Radicofani and journeyed to Sarteano fifteen miles away where they and their descendants lived and ruled for full five hundred years.
Of course the authenticity... of this agreeable narrative has been called in question, hard history disputes it, but 213 BYWAYS IN SOUTHERN TUSCANY at least the counts Manente of Sarteano, from the eleventh century on, were possessed of Piero's martial qualities; they practised fighting as a fine art, and when not busy at home hired themselves out impartially to fight other people's battles, and they were always in demand. For the rest, the history of Sarteano repeats that of other small towns in the Sienese domain.
214 ing Badia a Spineta CHAPTER XIII Cetona — Badia a Spineta — San Giovanni d'Asso- montefollonico montisi ROM Sarteano it is about four miles to Cetona, nor to my thinking can there be found a town more perfect in type, more exquisitely framed in country loveliness than this, with its castle tower rising above secular trees, its houses in subor- dinate ranks below, its neighboring villa garden all spired with cypresses, while the ground, dropping from it in suc- cessive terraces, is plumed with olives, verdant with grain, and broken by little settlements of conical hay-ricks.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
This was done and when he beheld his daughter and her beautiful children he was overcome with emotion and, embracing them all with tears, forgave them and acknowl- edged them as his kin. The oldest son he made Count of Sarteano with much land thereto and bestowed upon all of them rich gifts of diverse kinds. So Piero and his family left Radicofani and journeyed to Sarteano fifteen miles away where they and their descendants lived and ruled for full five hundred years.
Of course the authenticity... of this agreeable narrative has been called in question, hard history disputes it, but 213 BYWAYS IN SOUTHERN TUSCANY at least the counts Manente of Sarteano, from the eleventh century on, were possessed of Piero's martial qualities; they practised fighting as a fine art, and when not busy at home hired themselves out impartially to fight other people's battles, and they were always in demand. For the rest, the history of Sarteano repeats that of other small towns in the Sienese domain.
214 ing Badia a Spineta CHAPTER XIII Cetona — Badia a Spineta — San Giovanni d'Asso- montefollonico montisi ROM Sarteano it is about four miles to Cetona, nor to my thinking can there be found a town more perfect in type, more exquisitely framed in country loveliness than this, with its castle tower rising above secular trees, its houses in subor- dinate ranks below, its neighboring villa garden all spired with cypresses, while the ground, dropping from it in suc- cessive terraces, is plumed with olives, verdant with grain, and broken by little settlements of conical hay-ricks.
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