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Into it have been removed numerous monuments from the Cathedral; old Roman tombs and sarcophagi have been adopted in large numbers; curious mortuary inscriptions and memorials tory burch sale ofvarious kinds, classic and mediaeval, have been deposited there; and there are modern monuments of wonderful beauty by the best artists of the last and the present century. The history of sepulture, and the various tory burch shoes phases of art connected with it in Italy for two thousand years and more, might tory burch outlet be pretty thoroughly studied within those walls. While the Campo Santo yields to Westminster Abbey as to personal associations, it very greatly surpasses it as to the diversity, and the artistical beauty tory burch flats and interest of its contents. The walls were frescoed by artists of renown; and, though they have suffered excessively from dampness, and in many places the outer pellicle of plaster has peeled off, the paintings may still be traced without difficulty. Among them is an invaluable and most expressive series of scenes from the Book of Job, by Giotto.Besides this group, the most remarkable building in Pisa is a little chapel on the river-side, dedicated to Santa Maria della Spina, which is a perfect gem of its kind, and entirely unique. It has the proportions of a Grecian temple, is perhaps forty feet by twenty, of white marble; and its entire exterior surface is so covered with statuary and figures in alto-relievo, that hardly an inch of naked wall can be seen, so that it loots, not like a building, but like a solid mass of white-robed saints and angels.Perugia is one of the most charming places in Italy. Its site is more than beautiful,

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