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HANS ANDERSEN’S FAIRY TALES

THE SWINEHERD

Page 263.    " Ah! thou dearest Augustine,

Ali is gone, gone, gone.”

THE METAL PIG

Page 269. piazza (pe at'sa): in Italy, a square, or open space, sur-rounded by buildings.

Page 271. Palazzo degli Uffizi (palafsó dal'ye of fet"se): one of the chief art galleries of the world. Palazzo is the Italian word for " pałace.”

Page 272. Medici (m£d'e che): the name of a Florentine family.

Page 275. Galileo is calłed the Fatherof Modern Science. He madę a number of most important scientific discoveries. To him is at-tributed the saying in regard to the earth, when under tria! for the supposed heresy of believing in its motion, "// moves, nevertheless.”

Dante was the greatest of Italian poets.

Alfieri and Machiavelli were authors.

Opposite the grave of Galileo is the tomb of Michelangelo, on which stand his bust and three figures, representing sculpture, painting, and architecture. Close by is a monument to Dante, whose body is buried at Ravenna. On this monument Italy is represented as pointing to the colossal statuę of Dante, while Poetry mourns his loss. A few steps farther on is AlfierPs monument, which is adorned with laurel, the lyre, and dramatic masks; Italy weeps over his grave. Machiavelli is the last in this group of celebrated men.

EVERYTHING IN ITS RIGHT PLACE

Page 329. Thespis: a dramatic writer of the sixth century. He is całled the Father of the Greek Drama.

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