The Piazza Tales Chapter 1 - The Piazza

from The Herman Melville Library · host Herman Melville

In which a solitary soul, settling amid ancient hills and a venerable farm-house lacking a proper piazza, contemplates the enchanting scenery and resolves to build a northern veranda to feast upon Charlemagne’s mountain realm. Through wistful gazing and a fanciful voyage to a hidden mountain cottage, he encounters Marianna, a lonely maiden whose quiet melancholy shadows the radiant landscape, sowing a gentle melancholy in the heart of this pastoral tale.

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