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The snake's head is at the end of the
tail. The object most really interesting was a Roman eagle, the standard
of the Twenty-fourth Legion, about the size of a blackbird.

July 8th.--On the 6th we went to the Church of the Annunziata, which
stands in the piazza of the same name. On the corner of the Via dei
Servi is the palace which I suppose to be the one that Browning makes the
scene of his poem, "The Statue and the Bust," and the statue of Duke
Ferdinand sits stately on horseback, with his face turned towards the
window, where the lady ought to appear. Neither she nor the bust,
however, was visible, at least not to my eyes. The church occupies one
side of the piazza, and in front of it, as likewise on the two adjoining
sides of the square, there are pillared arcades, constructed by
Brunelleschi or his scholars. After passing through these arches, and
still before entering the church itself, you come to an ancient cloister,
which is now quite enclosed in glass as a means of preserving some
frescos of Andrea del Sarto and others, which are considered valuable.


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