Report of fashions in proud Italy
Whose manners still our tardy apish nation
Limps after in base imitation.
Whose manners still our tardy apish nation
Limps after in base imitation.
Thus whilst I imitate an inimitable imitator of Italian architectural fashion,
who fell from fashion erst he built the Radcliffe Camera,
I leave you, Dear Reader, with an Florentine impression,
its dense lanes and pale towers, aspiring domes and retiring villas.
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