ABSTRACT
But it would seem that the spirit of Rimini is diffused and scattered, over-harried by shunting and important trains, just because that same spirit stands isolated, though conserved, in the silent stone of one building. Noises pass away from it. And if you would liquefy all the energy, all the life both of the town and of the district, all the life that here stands concentrated in stone, if you want a Gothic and even Roman Rimini, you must follow the fantasies and the noisy researches of these pages, each of them stimulated by contemplation of the one building, the Tempio Malatestiano. Perhaps my task seems an unnecessary one. Perhaps you have seen,
The Tempio: First Visit of my knowledge of that time. I need but copy out a paragraph or two of Baedeker (1909) as follows:
"Rimini, pleasantly situated about JM. from the Adriatic at the mouth of the Marecchia and the Ausa (the ancient Aprusa), with 29,545 inhab. and extensive fisheries and silk-manufactures, is frequented by Italians and Hungarians for its sea-bathing. A fine avenue of plane trees leads from the Porta Marina (see below) to the beach. The shifting sands are apt to obstruct the harbour.
