A Room With A View - Forster E.M..pdf - Cove Systems

most beautiful--far better than the hackneyed
view of Fiesole. It is the view that Alessio
Baldovinetti is fond of introducing into his
pictures. That man had a decided feeling for
landscape. Decidedly. But who looks at it
to-day? Ah, the world is too much for us."
Miss Bartlett had not heard of Alessio
Baldovinetti, but she knew that Mr. Eager was
no commonplace chaplain. He was a member
of the residential colony who had made
Florence their home. He knew the people who
never walked about with Baedekers, who had
learnt to take a siesta after lunch, who took
drives the pension tourists had never heard of,
and saw by private influence galleries which
were closed to them. Living in delicate
seclusion, some in furnished flats, others in
Renaissance villas on Fiesole's slope, they
read, wrote, studied, and exchanged ideas,
thus attaining to that intimate knowledge, or
rather perception, of Florence which is denied
to all who carry in their pockets the coupons of
Cook.