CHAPTER VIII

IN SABINA 131

Castel Gandolfo—Its Gardens—The Sabine Hills—The Reverendo—An Expedition into the Hills-The Campagna in the Early Morning—“Our Lady of Good Counsel”—Ancient Præneste—Italy’s Landscape—Struggles of the Colonna—Destruction of Palestrina—Boniface’s Revenge and Expiation—Olevano, the Haunt of Artists—“Picturesque Utility”—The Wrong Train—Romance of a Pebble—The Work of the Saints.