"Aerial Fiesole" Andrea del Sarto--Fiesole sights--The Villa Palmieri and the "Decameron"-- Botticini's picture in the National Gallery--S.

Francesco--The Roman amphitheatre--The Etruscan museum--A sculptor's walk--The Badia di Fiesole--Brunelleschi again--Giovanni di San Giovanni.
After all these pictures, how about a little climbing?
From so many windows in Florence, along so many streets, from so many loggias and towers, and perhaps, above all, from the Piazzale di Michelangelo, Fiesole is to be seen on her hill, with the beautiful campanile of her church in the dip between the two eminences, that very soon one comes to feel that this surely is the promised land.

Florence lies so low, and the delectable mountain is so near and so alluring.

But I am not sure that to dream of Fiesole as desirable, and to murmur its beautiful syllables, is not best.
Let me sit Here by the window with your hand in mine, And look a half-hour forth on Fiesole -- that was Andrea's way and not an unwise one.

For Fiesole at nearer view can easily disappoint.