SEEING THAT ALL WAS RIGHT 107 THE ENCHANTED COW OF LA VIA VACCHERECCIA 109 THE WITCH OF THE PORTA ALLA CROCE 114 THE COLUMN OF COSIMO, OR DELLA SANTA TRINITA 118 LEGENDS OF OR’ SAN MICHELE 122 THE WITCH OF THE ARNO 132 STORIES OF SAN MINIATO 141 THE FRAIR’S HEAD OF SANTA MARIA MAGGIORE—THE LADY WHO 149 CONFESSED FOR EVERYBODY—HOLY RELICS BIANCONE, THE GIANT STATUE IN THE SIGNORIA 152 THE RED GOBLIN OF THE BARGELLO 160 LEGENDS OF SAN LORENZO 167 LEGENDS OF THE PIAZZA SAN BIAGIO 174 THE SPIRIT OF THE PORTA SAN GALLO 176 STORY OF THE PODESTÀ WHO WAS LONG ON HIS JOURNEY 179 LEGENDS OF THE BOBOLI GARDENS: THE OLD GARDENER, AND THE 184 TWO STATUES AND THE FAIRY HOW LA VIA DELLA MOSCA GOT ITS NAME 188 THE ROMAN VASE 194 THE UNFORTUNATE PRIEST 201 THE MYSTERIOUS FIG-TREE 205 IL PALAZZO FERONI 211 LA VIA DELLE BELLE DONNE 219 THE WIZARD WITH RED TEETH 221 ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE 225 INTIALO: THE SPIRIT OF THE HAUNTING SHADOW 237 CAIN AND HIS WORSHIPPERS 254 THE THREE HORNS OF MESSER GUICCIARDINI “More plenty than the fabled horn Thrice emptied could pour forth at banqueting.” —KEATS, _The Earlier Version of_ “_Hyperion_.” “Prosperity is often our worst enemy, making us vicious, frivolous, and insolent, so that to bear it well is a better test of a man than to endure adversity.”—GICCIARDINI, _Maxims_, No. 64. I did not know when I first read and translated the following story, which was obtained for me and written out by Maddalena, that it had any reference to the celebrated historian and moralist, Guicciardini. How I did so forms the subject of a somewhat singular little incident, which I will subsequently relate. LE TRE CORNE.