SIENA, ITALY

A MEDIEVAL CITY, WHOSE DESTRUCTION WOULD BE A LOSS TO CIVILIZATION. THE NEUTRAL POWERS MIGHT WELL PROTEST AGAINST FURTHER DESECRATION OF THE MONUMENTS OF THE PAST ON THE PART OF EITHER BELLIGERENTS. AS WE GO TO PRESS, THE POSSIBILITY OF THIS BEAUTIFUL REGION BECOMING A SCENE OF WAR IS VASTLY INCREASED BY ITALY'S ACTIVE PARTICIPATION AGAINST GERMANY IN

This celebrated cathedral is one of the most perfect examples of Italian Gothic. It was erected in the Fourteenth Century. The records of the work are singularly complete, and shed much light on Medieval communal life.

INTERIOR OF CATHEDRAL, SIENA, ITALY

The mosaic floor of this cathedral is one of the most beautiful in the world. It carries a mass of Biblical stories, done in red and black marble.

One of the most amous examples of Fifteenth Century art. It was designed by Niccolo Pisano

DANTE IN EXILE

"And if I go who stays, and if I stay
Who goes?" he said with sorrowful disdain

To those who questioned him, and hid the pain

Of leaving Florence, in the heart that lay

Cold in his breast, and turned from them; and they
Wagged their wise heads and smiled to think how vain.
Their Dante was, the while they turned again.

Unto the follies of their little day.

And he who trod the weary ways of hell
Smiled sadly, in his turn, to think that none

Of all the foolish Florentines could tell

The thought within his words: the words of one
Come from the dead, and who, whate'er befell,
In all the world walked utterly alone.

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