Excerpt from Above the Battles Now that the sun is sinking I order the doors to be thrown wide Open and suddenly we behold the magic beauty Of a summer evening in Italy. What grace What strength Around us and stretching to the horizon of dim and distant hills are the fields traversed by the straight canals of running water, each etched with its long lines of blackberry bushes. To the north and west, like the stage Of a theatre, the fairy-like scenery of the Alps rises against the sky. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.