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Title: Plain-towns of Italy : the cities of old Venetia
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Williams, Egerton R. (Egerton Ryerson), b. 1873 Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Cities and towns
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co. Cambridge (Mass.) : Riverside Press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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OF PETRARCH. ROVIGO, ARQUA, AND BATTAGLIA 583 The entrance hall runs through to the rear wall,in which opens another doorway, between two win-dows. Roundabout stand two tables, a desk and twochairs of the trecento, heavily framed and carved allover with curious scrolls, — recently brought here toexemplify the furniture of Petrarchs day. In a cen-tral, modern, glass case repose the visitors books bear-ing illustrious signatures, amongst which I saw those ofByron, Queen Margherita, King Umberto, etc.; alsoa photographic reproduction of a page of Petrarchsoriginal manuscript in the Vatican, and a fine copyof the first printed edition of his works, from the pressof Aldo Manutio at Venice. The back room on the right was the poets bed-chamber, now unfurnished; here there were similarcinquecento frescoes, illustrating the canzoni onLauras death. Adjacent in front was the kitchen,with the handsome chimney-piece of soft creamy stone(from the neighborhood), under which the poets mealswere coo

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