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CHAPTER 39 FLORENCE OF TO-DAY
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IT was while I was in Florence that a light was thrown on an industry of which I had previously1 known little and which impressed me much.
Brooding over the almost endless treasures of the city, I ambled2 into the Strozzi Palace one afternoon, that perfect example of Florentine palatial3 architecture, then occupied by an exposition of objects of art, reproductions and originals purporting4 to be the work of an association of Italian artists. After I had seen, cursorily5, most of the treasures in the Palazzo Strozzi, I encountered a thing which I had long heard of but never seen,—an organization for the reproduction, the reduplication, of all the wonders of art, and cheaply, too. The place was full of marbles of the loveliest character, replicas6 of famous statues in the Vatican, the Louvre, the Uffizi, and elsewhere; and in many instances, also, copies of the great pictures. There was beautiful furniture imitated, even as to age, from many of the Italian palaces, the Riccardi, Albizzi, Pazzi, Pitti, Strozzi, and others; and as for garden-fittings—fountains, fauns, cupids, benches, metal gateways7, pergolas, and the like, they were all present. They were marvelous reproductions from some of the villas8, with the patina9 of age upon them, and I thought at first that they were original. I was soon undeceived, for I had not been there long, strolling about, when an attendant brought and introduced to me a certain Prof. Ernesto Jesuram, a small, dark, wiry man with clear, black, crowlike eyes who made clear the whole situation.
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The markets of the world, according to Mr. Jesuram, a Jew, were being flooded with cheap imitations of every truly
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33 envious | |
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65 creeds | |
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67 monastery | |
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68 cypresses | |
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72 shrines | |
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73 bestow | |
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74 awnings | |
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75 shutters | |
百叶窗( shutter的名词复数 ); (照相机的)快门 | |
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76 dome | |
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77 catching | |
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80 linen | |
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