Excerpt from A Modern Antique: A Florentine StoryThe postman had delivered three letters at the Villa degli Olmi.Oddo Palmieri laid them on his desk, all in a line, and, impelled by a certain spirit of speculation peculiar to his character, was puzzling over the possibility of the three missives representing three nuisances.After a moment of thought he observed, Strange how even letters hidden in plain envelopes have a certain physiognomy.And no doubt the three pieces of white paper scribbled with the address had different characters.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.