still a lad, gives himself with a gravity beyond his years, to poetry and the study of Aristotle.” Lower down, on the other side of the little valley is the Salviatino, once belonging to the Dukes Salviati, whose good wine is immortalized in that jocund poem _Bacco in Toscana_. “Lovely Majano, lord of dells, Where my gentle Salviati dwells. Many a time and oft doth he Crown me with bumpers full fervently, And I, in return, preserve him still From every crude and importunate ill. I keep by my side, For my joy and pride, That gallant in chief of his royal cellar Val di Marina, the blithe care-killer; But with the wine yclept Val di Botte Day and night I could flout me the gouty.”[76] [Illustration: (Drawing of village seen through tall trees)] FOOTNOTES: [72] _Familie Celebre Toscane._ D. Tiribilli-Giuliani, riveduto dal Cav. R. Passerini. Firenze, 1862. [73] Samuel Rogers. _Italy._ P. 136. [74] Pampinea in the Introduction to the _Decameron_, after describing the horrors of the plague and the licentious life of the few inhabitants left in the town, suggests going to “our estates in the country, of which we all have a great many.” She was probably a Baroncelli—if one may attempt to identify personages or places in the _Decameron_. [75] The Affrico and the Affricuzzo. [76] _Opus cit._ See note page 70. [Illustration: VILLA DELLE SELVE] [Illustration: (Drawing of long colonnade in front of Villa)] VILLA DELLE SELVE