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pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon
a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles that look
clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon
pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow
violins and bassoons. It was pleasant, too, to fling
wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar
fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful
hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and close
below, the Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the
road. "A
room with view"of E. M. Foster |
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Dictionary: The Italian "Palazzo
"When the Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca,
the Italian equivalent of the Oxford English Dictionary,
first appeared in 1612, the term Palazzo(or Palagio as it
was written), was defined an isolated home, or, commonly,
any large residential structure(generally having a large
courtyard). Still, the syntactic use of the term palazzo
traces its roots back to the transitional house that existed
between the fourteen and fifthteen century."
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