"River Arno" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the reading-room by writing the name on a slip of paper. The National Library was formed in 1864 by the union of the Palatine Library collected by the Medici with the Magliabecchian Library collected by Antonio Magliabechi in 1700. The arch at the S. end of the colonnade leads to the river Arno and the Ponte Vecchio. ...
— The South of France—East Half • Charles Bertram Black
... elbows on the parapet, she contemplated the River Arno, whose roar was suggesting some ...
— A Room With A View • E. M. Forster
... where in happier days he had held the multitude spell-bound by his burning eloquence. There sentence was passed upon him. Stripped of his black Dominican robe and long white tunic, he was bound to a gibbet, strangled by a halter, and his dead body consumed by fire, his ashes being thrown into the river Arno. Such was the miserable end of the great Florentine preacher, whose strange and complex character has been so often discussed, and whose remarkable career has furnished a theme for poets and romance-writers, and forms the basis of one of the most ...
— Books Fatal to Their Authors • P. H. Ditchfield |
