From the Asolan Hills

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Excerpt from From the Asolan Hills: A Poem Some fifteen years ago the Italian poet, Carducci, sauntering with a friend over the Asolan hills, turned to him and said: "Your old land is very beautiful and rich in memories, I will write a poem about it." Again some two years later, at Castelfranco, he was stirred to say he would write an ode about Giorgione. The promised poems remain, I believe, unwritten, and Carducci's friend is dead. But all that moved both on the Asolan heights, overlooking the whole Marca Trivigiana, is there still for the seeing eye, for the living mind, a part of nature, or of the story of the country, and much, if not all of it, imposed itself upon me long before I knew of Carducci's promise, or of his friend's enthusiasm so pleasantly expressed in the little book he wrote now ten years ago entitled Asolando: - a title wherein he anticipated that of Mr. Browning's last volume of verse. 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.