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Der Coloss im Garten des Schlosses Pratolino bei Florenz
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Miscell. Subj. C. Vol. VI. No. 49., THE COLOSSUS IN THE GARDEN OF THE PALACE PRATOLINO NEAR FLORENCE., Si«c Itnlbn miles from Florence on the declivity of ihe mountain Settario lies the remarkajbht palace of Pratolino with its a table garden. It belong'd to thè Grind-duke? oi Tofcanâ, but now it i» almtf; ir.thely decayed. The Pratolino was confuucted 1569 under Francis, a fon of Cosinus de' Medicit by the Ikilful architect Bi/mitu'cnti. Nature and art united themselves, to form out of it an lite banting refideaca. Atnongß other one conici to a place, round incloled with thick treei. Ueie rifes over a bafia full of cle*r and limpid water the colofTal ftatue of the God Apennin, which being raifed would be about 100 feet h With one hand the god repofes on the rock, with the other he feems to prefs the head of a fea-monfter, from whose ja>vs a jet of water is gufhing out. The whole ftatue is conlirucled of Itone and brick, and over-la\'d with mortar. Inwardly it is hollow, and one finis in the head a pretty little :.ber, where the windows open themfalves in the eye-balls.
