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`` I suppose one should think of one 's biographer . '' `` It will be more like yourself to get Asher to land you at one of the Italian ports . We will go to Perugia and see Raphael 's first frescoes , done when he was sixteen , and the town itself climbing down into ravines . The streets are lonely at midday , but towards evening a breeze blows up from both seas -- Italy is very narrow there -- and the people begin to come out ; and from the battlements one sees the lights of Assisi glimmering through the dusk . '' `` I may never see Italy . Go on talking . I like to hear you talk about Italy . ''