st of the spurs of the Apennines,
to the north of Florence.

33.

This time we'll shoot better game and bag 'em hot:
No mere display at the stone of Dante,
But a kind of sober Witanagemot
(Ex: "Casa Guidi", `quod videas ante')
Shall ponder, once Freedom restored to Florence,
How Art may return that departed with her.
Go, hated house, go each trace of the Loraine's,
And bring us the days of Orgagna hither!

--
St. 33. the stone of Dante: see `Casa Guidi Windows', Pt. I,
Sect. XIV., XV.

Witanagemot: A. S. `witena gemo^t': an assembly of wise men,
a parliament.

Casa Guidi: Mrs. Browning's `Casa Guidi Windows', a poem named from
the house in Florence in which she lived, and giving her impressions
of events in Tuscany at the time.

the Loraine's: the "hated house" included the Cardinals of Guise,
or Lorraine, and the Dukes of Guise, a younger branch
of the house of Lorraine.

Orgagna: Andrea di Cione (surnamed Orcagna, or Arcagnolo,
approximate dates of b. and d. 1315-1376), one of the most noted
successors of Giotto, and allied to him in genius; though he owed much
to Giotto, he showed great independence of spirit in his style.

34.

How we shall prologuize, how we shall perorate,
Utter fit things upon art and history,
Feel truth at blood-heat and falsehood at zero rate,
Make of the want of the age no mystery;
Contrast the fructuous and sterile eras,
Show--monarchy ever its uncouth cub licks
Out of the bear's shape into Chimaera's,
While Pure Art's birth is still the republic's!

35.

Then one shall propose in a speech (curt Tuscan,
Expurgate and sober, with scarcely an "issimo"),
To end now our half-told tale of Cambuscan,
And turn the bell-tower's ALT to ALTISSIMO;
And, fine as the beak of a young beccaccia,
The Campanile, the Duomo's fit ally,
Shall soar up in gold full fifty braccia,
Completing Florence, as Florence, Italy.

--
St. 35. an "issimo": any adjective in the superlative degree.
to end: complete.

our half-told tale of Cambuscan: by metonymy for the unfinished
Campanile of Giotto;

"Or call up him that left half-told
The story of Cambuscan bold."
--Milton's `Il Penseroso'.

An allusion to Chaucer, who left the `Squire's Tale' in
the `Canterbury Tales' unfinished. The po