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Barbara's Heritage Young Americans Among the Old Italian Masters

Barbara's Heritage Young Americans Among the Old Italian Masters

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Academy, Bologna 296 Marriage of Saint Catherine. Luini. Poldi-Pezzoli Museum, Milan 350

ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT

Pen and Ink Drawings made by Homer W. Colby

Barbara's Home 15
A Bit of Genoa 31
Church of the Annunziata, Florence 47
Duomo and Campanile, Florence 63
Santa Maria Novella, Florence 79
A Glimpse of Florence 95
Cloister, Museum of San Marco, Florence 109
Ponte Alla Carraja, Florence 125
Palazzo Pitti, Florence 141
San Miniato al Monte, Florence 159
Orvieto Cathedral 173
San Francesco, Assisi 191
Ruins of Forum, Rome 207
Saint Peter's and Castle of Saint Angelo, Rome 223
Loggia of Raphael, Vatican, Rome 241
A Bit of Amalfi 261
Campo Santo, Bologna 281
San Marco, Venice 301
Grand Canal and Rialto, Venice 319
Milan Cathedral 337

PRELUDE.

Each day the world is born anew
 For him who takes it rightly;
 Not fresher that which Adam knew,
 Not sweeter that whose moonlit dew
 Entranced Arcadia nightly.
Rightly? That's simply: 'tis to see
 Some substance casts these shadows
 Which we call Life and History,
 That aimless seem to chase and flee
 Like wind-gleams over meadows.
Simply? That's nobly: 'tis to know
 That God may still be met with,
 Nor groweth old, nor doth bestow
 These senses fine, this brain aglow,
 To grovel and forget with.
—James Russell Lowell.

Chapter I.

The Unexpected Happens.

And foorth they passe with pleasure forward led.
—Spenser.

BARBARA'S HOME.BARBARA'S HOME.

"O Barbara! do you think papa and mamma will let us go? Can they afford it? Just to think of Italy, and sunshine, and olive trees, and cathedrals, and pictures! Oh, it makes me wild! Will you not ask them, dear Barbara? You are braver than I, and can talk better about it all. How can we bear to have them say 'no'—to give up all the lovely thought of it, now that once we have dared to dream of its coming to us—to you and me, Barbara?" and color flushed the usually pale cheek of the young girl, and her dark eyes glowed with feeling as she hugged tightly the arm of her sister.

Barbara and Bettina Burnett were walking through a pleasant street in one of the suburban towns of Boston after an

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