Wanderings in Italy Author:Gabriel Faure General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1919 Original Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919. Subjects: Italy Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access t... more »o Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: LUINI AT SARONNO 17 which encircle it with their harmonious lines. On the further shore, above Pella, which slumbers in its woods of chestnut and walnut, rises the utmost peak of Mount Rosa. Together with the falling darkness, I descend towards Orta, to the aXbergo whose embowered terrace dominates the town. Gradually silky veils are drawn across the sky. A fine mist rises from the overheated earth, softens all contours, and wraps things in a supple mantle of velvet. The bills seem at once to advance and to recede. The twinkle of stars animates the glistening waters, and a moon in its first quarter throws a thin track of fire across them. Here and there a light quivers on the quay of Orta. The dim trees slumber motionless in the languid air. CHAPTER II BAEONNO also long wished to visit Saronno, for here one really learns to know Luini, the good Luini, whose gentle, rhythmic name so aptly evokes the poetry of the lakes on whose shores he was born and lived and died. Nowhere else has he left so many frescoes; and he is above all a frescante. He who judges Luini only by his easel pictures knows not the true genius of the artist, who was unable to pour out his tender, ardent, spontaneous soul within their narrow limits. It is true that at Milan one can get an idea of his art from the works in San Maurizio, in the Brera, where there are numerous fragments, notably the admirable Entombment of Saint Catherine, and in S. Maria della Passione, the church, whose rococo fagade bears the half obliterated inscription immortalised by Maurice B...« less