Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A History of Painting, Vol. 3 of 8: Later Italians and Genius of Spain
For centuries Italy was to be but a splendid ruin - the picturesque home of a dead romance - yet, by very reason of that romance, the inspirer of some of the poetry Of the greater breeds.
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