The Story of Assisi

· 1964

Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. "Between Tupino, and the wave that falls From blest Ubaldo's chosen hill, there hangs Rich slope of mountain high, whence heat and cold Are wafted through Perugia's eastern gate: And Nocera with Gualdo, in its rear, Mourn for their heavy yoke. Upon that side, Where it doth break its steepness most, arose A sun upon the world, as duly this From Ganges doth: therefore let none who speak Of that place, say Ascesi; for its name Were lamely so deliver'd; but the East, To call things rightly, be it henceforth styled." DANTE, _Paradiso_, xi. (Cary's translation).…

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