Excerpt from The Casentino and Its Story A region so beautiful and so interesting as the Casentino needs no recommendation to the traveller. Its forests and streams and high, flower-spread lawns, the noble forms of the mountains, glorious in colour, whether lying still beneath the sun, or when, terrible in cloud, the Apennine walks abroad with the storm, are in themselves allurement enough. But there is, besides, the romance of ruined castles, of mediaeval battlefields and storied towns, while to all who reverence the human spirit in its highest manifestations, that must needs be holy ground, where, at every turn, you come upon traces of such men as Francis of Assisi and Dante Alighieri. 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.