Legends of Florence: Collected from the People, First Series
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- Legends of Florence Collected from the People
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- THE THREE HORNS OF MESSER GUICCIARDINI
- THE PILLS OF THE MEDICI
- FURICCHIA, OR THE EGG-WOMAN OF THE MERCATO VECCHIO
- THE LANTERNS OF THE STROZZI PALACE
- THE GOBLIN OF LA VIA DEL CORNO
- FRATE GIOCONDO, THE MONK OF SANTA MARIA NOVELLA
- THE LEGEND OF THE CROCE AL TREBBIO
- THE TWO FAIRIES OF THE WELL a legend of the via calzaioli
- THE STORY OF THE VIA DELLE SERVE SMARRITE
- THE BRONZE BOAR OF THE MERCATO NUOVO
- THE FAIRY OF THE CAMPANILE, OR THE TOWER OF GIOTTO
- THE GOBLIN OF THE TOWER BELLA TRINITA, OR THE PORTA SAN NICCOLO
- THE GHOST OF MICHEL ANGELO
- THE APPARITION OF DANTE
- LEGENDS OF LA CERTOSA
- LEGENDS OF THE BRIDGES IN FLORENCE
- THE BASHFUL LOVER a legend of the chiesa santa lucia in the via de’ bardi
- LA FORTUNA a legend of the via de’ cerchi
- THE STORY OF THE UNFINISHED PALACE a legend of the via del proconsolo
- THE DEVIL OF THE MERCATO VECCHIO
- SEEING THAT ALL WAS RIGHT a legend of the porta a san nicolò
- THE ENCHANTED COW OF LA VIA VACCHERECCIA
- THE WITCH OF THE PORTA ALLA CROCE
- THE COLUMN OF COSIMO, OR DELLA SANTA TRINITA
- LEGENDS OF OR’ SAN MICHELE
- THE WITCH OF THE ARNO
- LA BELLA STREGA. Nuova Canzonetta di Charles Godfrey Leland.
- The Beautiful Witch.
- Il Giardino d’Amore, o La Figlia del Re, e il Contino Stregone.
- The Garden of Love, or The King’s Daughter and the Wizard Count.
- STORIES OF SAN MINIATO
- THE FRIAR’S HEAD OF SANTA MARIA MAGGIORE—THE LADY WHO CONFESSED FOR EVERYBODY—HOLY RELICS
- BIANCONE, THE GIANT STATUE IN THE SIGNORIA
- THE RED GOBLIN OF THE BARGELLO
- LEGENDS OF SAN LORENZO the canon and the debtor, and the cats in the cloister
- LEGEND OF THE PIAZZA SAN BIAGIO
- THE SPIRIT OF THE PORTA SAN GALLO
- STORY OF THE PODESTÀ WHO WAS LONG ON HIS JOURNEY a legend of the duomo
- LEGENDS OF THE BOBOLI GARDENS: THE OLD GARDENER, AND THE TWO STATUES AND THE FAIRY
- HOW LA VIA DELLA MOSCA GOT ITS NAME
- THE ROMAN VASE a legend of bellosguardo
- THE UNFORTUNATE PRIEST a legend of la via dello scheletro
- THE MYSTERIOUS FIG-TREE a legend of the via del fico
- IL PALAZZO FERONI showing how it got its name from a fairy
- LA VIA DELLE BELLE DONNE
- THE WIZARD WITH RED TEETH
- ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE
- INTIALO the spirit of the haunting shadow
- CAIN AND HIS WORSHIPPERS the spell of the mirror—the invocation to cain—the witch-history of cain and abel
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