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LITTLE NOVELS OF ITALY

BY

MAURICE HEWLETT

AUTHOR OF "THE FOREST LOVERS," "PAN AND THE YOUNG
SHEPHERD," "EARTHWORK OUT OF TUSCANY," ETC.

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.
1899

_All rights reserved_


COPYRIGHT, 1899,
By MAURICE HEWLETT.


Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.


TO

HIS FRIEND

AND

ITALY'S

MAJOR-GENERAL JOSEPH BONUS, R.E.

THE AUTHOR DEDICATES HIS BOOK




CONTENTS

                                  PAGE
MADONNA OF THE PEACH-TREE            1

IPPOLITA IN THE HILLS               67

THE DUCHESS OF NONA                137

MESSER CINO AND THE LIVE COAL      225

THE JUDGMENT OF BORSO              254




LITTLE NOVELS OF ITALY




MADONNA OF THE PEACH-TREE




I

VANNA IS BID FOR


Not easily would you have found a girl more winning in a tender sort
than Giovanna Scar