"Then coming nearer home, they climbed the Euganean hills, and penetrated their recesses. Guinigi had an ultimate object in view; he wished to impress on the mind of his pupil a love of pease, and a taste for rural pleasures" (80).
Given Guinigi's persuasive tactics were not working on the young Castruccio, he was hoping witnessing the beauty and simplicity of the hillside would convince him that the pastoral life was not as terrible as Castruccio believed it to be.
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