Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—V

Valdarno

The valley of the Arno, in Tuscany.

the Tuscan artist [Galileo] views
At evening from the top of Fesole,
Or in Valdarno?

Milton: Paradise Lost, bk. i. 207-200.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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