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Page xii
... the home town , its people , its houses , its mores . So a slab - sided Ford is as im- portant to him as an arch in an aqueduct is to an Italian . He loves the false fronts of American grocery stores and ads for tobacco and chewing xii.
... the home town , its people , its houses , its mores . So a slab - sided Ford is as im- portant to him as an arch in an aqueduct is to an Italian . He loves the false fronts of American grocery stores and ads for tobacco and chewing xii.
Page xv
... Italian Renaissance dress Mary up like an Italian dame , and the soldiers under the Cross wear Genoese and Florentine uniforms and carry the halberds of the time . Poetry brings the past forward , too , and makes it live . We cannot ...
... Italian Renaissance dress Mary up like an Italian dame , and the soldiers under the Cross wear Genoese and Florentine uniforms and carry the halberds of the time . Poetry brings the past forward , too , and makes it live . We cannot ...
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