“_There has passed away at Florence, where she had lived many years, Isabella M. Anderton, an elegant and learned writer on Italian art in several English reviews, among them_ THE STUDIO. _Well skilled in our language and literature, she turned both prose and verse into strong and faithful English: worthy of special mention being her versions of Pascoli—of whom she was an admirer and friend—and her translation of the_ KALEVALA _of Domenico Comparetti. An Englishwoman settled in Italy, she blended in an enchanting harmony the nervous energy of her race and the grace of ours. She was English in her energetic tenacity of will, finely tempered as a blade of steel; Italian in her agile grace of spirit, in her vivid and ready sensibility, in the glowing colours of her imagination. She was a woman in the truest and highest sense of the word; and knew how to meet adversity with a smiling face. A most excellent teacher, she held the Chair of English Letters at the Collegio dell’Annunziata, where she fairly captivated the affections and esteem of her pupils who went to her for counsel and advice after having left the school. The_ MARZOCCO, _to which she was a contributor, joins with many in Florence and elsewhere in mourning her loss._” FOOTNOTES: [1] This is actually as the woman told it. I can only suggest there is some lacuna which my story-teller did not know how to fill up. [2] _We retain the unusual spelling “Dominiddio,” which is evidently intended to indicate the pronunciation of the Tuscan peasants._—ED. [3] _Cf._ The Story of The Three Sisters, in the Arabian Nights. [4] “Let us go, young men; let us go, young men, to those nice cialde, O—— h.” [5] Beppe’s home is more fully described in “A Tuscan Farmhouse,” p. 106. [6] The house is small, but great its restfulness. [7] Sacred to Jupiter, the patron of hospitality. Oh, thou, whoever thou mayst be, who, being an honest man, art perchance fleeing those worst of enemies, thy neighbours, enter this lonely house and rest. [8] Friends, enemies; Relations, serpents; Cousins, assassins; Brothers, knives. [9] For description of the marriage, see “A Wedding in the Pistoiese,” p. 87. [10] That Capoliveri was a Roman town seems to be proved by the manuscript of a Goth, quoted as travelling in these parts in about 530 A.D. He tells us that the right name of the place is _Caputliberum_, for that Roman exiles deported to this village, without any difficulty, obtained the liberty of walking outside the walls within the jurisdiction of the city. It must have been a sort of _Domicilio Coatto_. The author of the manuscript is called by Ninci and Lambardi _Celeteudo_ or _Celteuso_.