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“Bellefonte, Pa., April 22, 1927.
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Our Visit to Italy.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
By Rev. L. M. Colfelt D. D.
On approaching Florence the beau-
tiful capital of Tuscany, the eye dis-
covers the same walls flanked by
picturesque towers which surrounded
the city in the 15th century and
against which the Pisans and Sienese
so frequently spent their efforts in
vain. All the monuments which rise
so proudly, those immense domes, the
embattled palaces, the gorgeous
churches, the handsome streets paved
in the ancient style, the flowers which
hang in festoons, seeming by their
abundance to have given its name to
the city—all recall the age when
Florence voluntarily submitting her-
sell to the rule of the Medici, dealt
out to the rest of Italy, science, po-
liteness, taste and magnificence. En-
tering the city which cradled the arts
at the time of their regeneration, the
attention is attracted to the famous
ducal palace called Palazzo Pitti, built
not only with a solidity which prom-
ises ages of endurance but filled with
art treasures which render it one of
the most remarkable galleries in Eu-
ope. The three lofty stories are divid-
ed into nine hundred apartments.
Many of them carved and gilt all over
:are furnished in the most costly man-
mer. The suites of apartments con-
tain a number of mosaic tables dif-
fering from the other mosaics of Italy
in the large pieces of which they are
formed. The labor required in these
works are hardly credible, the table
mised by Count Cavour, minister of
Victor Immanuel, having consumed
thirteen years of a set of artists work-
ing together to complete it. The
famous Venus of Canova, decorates
one of these halls. The palace com-
municates with the gallery of paint-
ings deservedly celebrated and filled
with the finest specimens of ancient
and modern art. One is bewildered
with the artistic treasures here dis-
played. A whole year was consumed
in simply classifying the statues,
paintings, vases, cameos and the
crowd of other curiosities. To enter
into a description would be intermin-
able. .
Leaving the palace after but a
hasty glance we approach the Cathe-
dral of which Michael Angelo thought
it impossible for an architect to raise
so fine a building as this grand archi-
tectural monument. The whole ex-
ternal appearance is that of chequered
white and black marble. An isolated
tower at no great distance serves as
its belfry and. Charles V. was so en-
chanted with its finished elegance that
he said it ought to be put in a glass
case to defend it from the wind and
atmosphere. The three bronze gates
of the baptistry are worked with so
much art that Michael Angelo thought
them worthy of being placed at the
entrance into Paradise. The tombs of
the Medices commenced three centur-
ies ago is one of the most curious
works in Italy. Jaspers, lapis lazuli,
alabaster, and the rarest marbles are
combined in such profusion that it re-
sembles not so much a sepulchral
monument as a magnificent mosaic.
The church of Santa Crocs contains
the ashes of many illustrious men.
The tomb of Viktorio Alfieri is adorn-
ed by Canova, there too are the re-
mains of Galileo, Aretino, Macchia-
velli, who is represented as weighing
a sword and a roll of papers in a bal-
ance. We confess to lingering long
over the tomb of Michael Angelo con-
templating his bust wrought by him-
self. It were glory enough for one
eity to be the mother of so grand a
sculptor, painter and architect. No
one can mistake a work of this artist
wherever seen. No man ever stamped
to so great a degree his own unique
individuality upon the productions of
his genius. The forehead of tle
statue left of himself, shows the
wrecks of the tempests whieh have
erossed it in the search by solitary
paths after the infinite. There is
nothing ordinary, nothing mean in
the creations of his skill. All tie
figures he left are bold, athletic, her-
eulean. No succeeding artist has imi-
tated him with success. His individ-
nality is so powerful, his stature so
elevated, his center of gravity so far
removed, that to follow him causes
vertigo and exposes the imitator to
a terrible fall. One must go into the
Sistine Chapel, also into St. Peter's
at Rome to see in the violent statuary
and the exaggerated painting the ut-
ter folly of any artist trying to copy
the unique and almost superhuman
genius of Michael Angelo, who must
remain the wonder of the artistic ages,
like Dante, like Shakespeare in lit-
erature; alone in his inaccessible sol-
tude. ‘
Florence was also the scene of Sav-
anarolo’s labors, that reformer so
strangely composite in nature—parc
worlding who invoked saints and an-
gels, recommended fasting and pen-
ance and who at the same time sum-
moned Machiavel, advised crime and
assassination and restored the like-
ness of the Caesars. Time, however
would fail to tell of the noble names
Florence has bequeathed to immortal-
ity and the imagination cannot con-
jure up the glorious men of the Tus-
can Republic who ornamented the city
with immortal works of genius, pre-
sided as magistrates distributing re-
wards of merit, decreeing peace and
war, and ruling the affairs of state.
But we grow weary of the works
of man, though presented in such
noble proportions in Florence and
sigh for the handiwork of the great
Builder and Artist from whom man
has borrowed all that is imposing and
artistic. We place a just estimate up-
on the tumultuous life of the town
when compared with silent freshness
of the country yet the heart within us
is never quite satisfied until we have
quitted the city with its monuments
of stone and terminated each day with
an excursion into the country. The
picturesque environs of Florence ad-
mit of endless wanderings of this soft
but there is one well worth the mak-
ing. Passing the gate of Santa Croce
and the Falls of the Arno, we wander-
ed along the banks of the river,
through the orchards and the lilacs,
catching glimpses of the waters spark-
ling against the banks or rolling
peacefully amongst the branches of
the osiers which bent over the cur-
rent. Farther on, a hill covered with
vines, rose some elegant Casinos which
broke the blue line of the rocks of
Fiesole crowned with their Tuscan
walls while the near fields presented
the appearance of varied cultivation.
On the opposite side of the plain is
the deep but elevated pass through
which the waters of the Magnano
force their way, while beyond the
evergreen woods the Appenine Alps
lift themselves against the sky, their
summits capped with snow. :
Once a proud city but now a ruin,
Fiesole affords few means of judg-
ing justly what it formerly was.
Temples, palaces, theatres are all
swept away, even the tombs are vio-
lated. Yet we stand in the midst of
a city that was old when Romulus
and Remus with a plow drew the out-
lines for the proposed city of Rome,
so old indeed that its origin is invol-
ved in the inextricable mazes of an-
tiquity. The ruined walls display a
style of building of the remotest
ages. They seem to prove the pro-
digious force of the men who con-
structed them and that there were in-
deed “Giants in those days.” The
walls are not composed of ordinary
evenly wrought stones but of im-
mense masses of irregularly shaped
rocks, artfullly placed upon one an-
other; in short, the solidity of these
erections and the elevated sites whieft
they occupy seem like the work of an
elder race of mankind, terrified at
the tremendous catastrophe of the
deluge! Aqueducts erected probably
at the same time, carried to Fiesole
the waters of Mt. Reggio, several
miles distant and though broken
down in the time of Caesar, as Villani
tells us, yet their remains resemble
real rocks in the magnitude and may
be confounded with them by reason
of their savage appearance. Fiesole
was one of the twelve cities of Etru-
ria and was praised by the ancients
for the serenity of its atmosphere
and for its baths, thought to be a
cure for many maladies. This city
had the glory of resisting and test-
ing the greatest courage of Rome.
Livy bears testimony to the formid-
able character of the inhabitants of
Fiesole and the rest of Etruria. All
the forces of Rome were employed at
various times to subdue them and
several dictators were created for the
purpose of allaying the fear which the
people inspired. When the conspir-
acy of Cataline was unmasked. by
Cicero, that seditious citizen, compell-
ed to seek safety in flight, escaped
from Rome and with his fellow con-
spirators took refuge in Fiesole, the
only city which by its formidable
situation and the courage of its in-
habitants was capable of resisting
the Roman arms. Cataline did not
hesitate to hazard an engagement with
the Consul Caius Antonius, the re-
sult of which was doubtful though
the brave citizens of Fiesole were few
in numbers and almost without arms.
The victory was finally purchased, so
dearly that smiles struggled with
tears when the news of the battle
arrived there. After a varied his-
tory Fiesole was finally absorbed by
Florence and her most distinguished
citizens removed thither. The city
furnished innumerable columns and
materials for the erection of Floien-
tine building and many statues and
sculptured marbles to adorn her
palaces. Tt is very probable that the
four columns that support the arched
roof of the gallery of the Baptistry
of Florence ave the remains of zome
monument in Fixioa,
Ficsole was eve of the Hrst erties
after Rome which embraced Chris-
tianity. She produced a great num-
ber oi philosonirets and literary men
besides artists celebrated in scaipture
and paintings. Consriclous among
its painters was Fra Angelico. who
painted angels with the same fariily
with which Plato described pure
ideas. He was a mystic in whose
very retina was painted Cherubim
and from whose hands no Christ nor
Virgin ever came without prayers and
tears, truly a sublime monk who
painted on his knees and who left a
noble remembrance in the immense
fresco which covers almost all the
western gallery of the Campo Santo
at Pisa.
The city of Fiesole contains most
remarkable antiquities, collossal frag-
ments of old Etruscian walis, vestiges
of aqueducts and vast subterranean
chambers. It may say with pride,
“Here rose my high towers and im-
pregnable walls, there lay the baths
of Cataline, yonder were the temples
of Jove the Thundered and Mars, in
that place stood the College of
Augurs and the palace of the ancient
Kings” and even yet the ruins of
these indestructible walls inspire
sensations of awe. On the ruins of
the temple of Jupiter there now rises
a church over which the Cross is
crescent and within which the relig-
ious ceremonies of the Nazarene
are performed and the College of the
Augurs is replaced by an Academy
where instead of the superstitious
art of reading the future, the prov-
idence of the all-powerful God is
taught. The bathing waters form-
erly so celebrated still run amidst
the most delightful villas and gardens
of Tuscany. Fiesole has exchanged
the splendor of military prowess for
the more durable glory of the arts
of peace. Leaving the sights of the
ancient and moden buildings, the
Archiepiscopal palace and the Acade-
my, the Church and Convent of St.
Francis and its vast garden, we fol-
low down the windings of the road
by the bend of the hill and along
the rock that supported the ancient
Etruscan fortress, enjoying to the
full on those perfumed hills the
beautiful skies of Italy and borrow-
ing fresh life from the vivacious air.
The complete absence of every vapor
permits one to see in minutest detail
the plain of Florence, its palaces, its
high towers, its domes colored by the
vivid light of a sun, cloudless and
ardent in its setting. So near does
! the city seem to be that we can hear
the confused murmur of voices and
the noise of the mechanical occupa-
tions of the inhabitiants of the Cap-
ital, an experience which can be re-
peated standing in one of the high-
er circles of the Via Nazionals at
Naples as it winds up the city heights
and looking down upon that hive of
500,000 human beings, you can hear
distinctly the eternal buzzing of hu-
man voices rising to heaven and
drowning all other sounds! Adieu!
Fiesole, the oldest city of Italy and
among the oldest of the world!
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OUR PAPER SUPPLY.
Wasteful cutting of soft wood
trees, neglect in planting new forests
to take the place of the old ones, and
forest fires have depleted our supply
of raw material for paper. The Amer-
ican people have been very improv-
ident in the way they have looked
out for themselves on this head. They
should have planted vast forests
many years ago to provide contin-
uous paper supplies, but they failed
to do so.
The people are now using over 180
pounds of paper per capita annually
and new uses for it are being discov-
ered right along. Not many pulp
mills in the eastern and middle west-
ern States have better than a 10
vears’ supply of pulp wood, accord-
ing to an article in “the Paper In-
dustry.” This writer remarks that of
the three million odd tons of news
print now consumed by the Amer-
ican press probably three-fifths come
from Canada and various foreign
countries. He seems to think that in
a few years Canada may place some
form of embargo on the exportation
of wood pulp.
At present the annual waste from
lumber amounts to at least eight
million cords, and of this about two
million cords is left in the woods,
while a considerable part of the rest
is burned.
The American people ought to de-
vise measures for adequate replant-
ing of forests and they should take
further steps to prevent waste of
this valuable material and to prevent
forest fires. Paper is one of the es-
sential elements of civilization and if
it should become so high in price that
people could not afford to buy many
newspapers, magazines and books they
would take a long step backward.
Of course one would imagine that
when our pulp supply gives out, ar-
rangements could he made with Can-
ada and various countries for use of
their resources. But our paper stock
is likely to cost us a great deal more
than it should because of cur own fail-
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