Re: AW: Mountains

[Christian Folini]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:33:54PM +0200, Jens Börner wrote:
> Hello John,
> 
> Francesco di Marco Datini, the italian merchant of the late 14th =
> century,
> from whom survived lots of personal letters, and his friends mention =
> italian
> landscape and their thoughts on them several times.  (Literature e.g.:
> "Merchant of Prato: Francesco di Marco Datini", Origo, Iris)
> They cover all three aspects you asked for.

Francesco too? Now you are mentioning it, I remember Ser Lapo
looking over the countryside from his little house (above Prato?).
But did Francesco really have the patience to look at anything
for more than 2 seconds?

John: The Swiss chronicles have a some pages about mountains as they
cover the Italian wars in substantial length. You can browse
them all the Swiss National Library in Berne. The Pfaff book
may have something in it too. Do no think the text is translated
in modern German, let alone English though.

Regs,

Christian


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