Capitolo 16
the belt seemed very wide. However, in proportion as me I receded from
the city, I found better the cultivated fields. One would imagine that
to a certain distance from St. Pietro it is the farmers worked with
greater taste. The roads that near Rome is detestable, became
gradually better; they was frequented more, and the people that I have met
seemed happier. The inns became habitable, from comparison, in a
amazing degree. Anchor, so long as me I remained in that part of the
country toward the Mediterranean of which Rome is the centre, and
what subject to his/her influence is more directly, I founded that the
aspect of the earth left anything to always be desired. ME
it sometimes imagined that these honest labourers worked as if theirs were
afraid to make a noise, so that not, from smiting the ground too deeply and also
audaciously, they should wake up the corpses of past age.
But when once I had crossed the Apennines, when I was over the course
of the breeze that blew on the capital, I started to inhale a
atmosphere of jobs and starting that you/he/she has consoled my heart. The fields
you/he/she was not only dug, but it manured, and, you still improve, it planted and sown.
The sense of smell of fertilizer was rather new to me. I had never met with him on
the other side of the Apennines. I had delighted to the sight of
trees. There were file of grapevines that twists around elms planted in fields
of hemp, wheat or clover. In of the places the grapevines and elms were
replaced by mulberry-trees. What mixed wealth was lavished here from
nature! As generous is the earth! It mixed together here, in
rich profusion, bread, wine shirts, dressed of silk and it look for for the
bovine livestock. St. Pietro is a noble church, but, in his/her way, a
well-cultivated field is a beautiful sight!
Me the travelled slowly in Bologna; the sight of the country that I have passed
through, and the fruitfulness of honest human creature works, it did me happy. ME
reconsidered my footsteps toward St. Pietro; my melancholy returned when me