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Excerpt from Leonora Casaloni, Vol. 1 of 2: A Novel
But in April the beauty of that wild Maremma land may be enjoyed without danger, and even the nights are not yet poisonous. It is a strange country, that Maremma; outlawed, it might seem, by both man and nature Or at least it was so at the period of the events I am about to relate - some forty years ago or so, that is. Since that time much has been done for the sanitary improvement of the district, and more towards the redemption of it from its old and well-known character of lawless ness and savagery. Outlawed by nature, how ever, the Maremma could only be called in the sense of its unfitness for human habitation. For it was, and is still, a district of exceeding beauty, - a beauty ministered to by the very elements and conditions which, render its atmosphere pestilential in the summer and autumn months. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
