The Quarterly Review, Volume 285William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1947 |
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Page 313
... PALIO IN SIENA . ANYONE who , in July or August , visits Siena for the Palio will at once see how wrong it is to think there is no team spirit in Italy . The Palio , the horse - race whose name TO is taken from the silken painted ...
... PALIO IN SIENA . ANYONE who , in July or August , visits Siena for the Palio will at once see how wrong it is to think there is no team spirit in Italy . The Palio , the horse - race whose name TO is taken from the silken painted ...
Page 316
... Palio itself to see , propped beside the altar . Madonna is painted on it , on clouds , and below her as this is the first Palio of the Republic- Mazzini with a black stock round his neck ; and below him as there is a Communist ...
... Palio itself to see , propped beside the altar . Madonna is painted on it , on clouds , and below her as this is the first Palio of the Republic- Mazzini with a black stock round his neck ; and below him as there is a Communist ...
Page 317
... Palio itself , and the Palace guards ; the Palio is hoisted to the platform of the judges , the course is cleared , the jockeys ride bareback out from the dark archway , and as each crosses the threshold , a long lash is given to his ...
... Palio itself , and the Palace guards ; the Palio is hoisted to the platform of the judges , the course is cleared , the jockeys ride bareback out from the dark archway , and as each crosses the threshold , a long lash is given to his ...
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