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Identifier: italiancastlesco00batcrich (find matches)
Title: Italian castles and country seats
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Batcheller, Tryphosa Bates, 1878-
Subjects: Castles -- Italy Historic buildings -- Italy Italy -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, Longmans, Green, and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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inen patterns. To-day as I passed up thestreet I looked in at a room where some twenty littlegirls, not over five years old, were struggling, each withfour knitting needles, and a patient young woman wasgoing the rounds teaching each one the intricacies ofthe inevitable stocking, which at this early age theymust begin to knit. We took tea at the Hotel San Domenico, formerlya Dominican convent. Surrounded with roses, orangeblossoms, and all possible loveliness, we had anotherview, always different but ever beautiful, of the greatmajestic, smoking Etna. Afterwards we made a shortcall on Baron von Gloden, who came to Sicily believ-ing he had but a few months to live, and who foundin this sunny climate and bright clear air, health andlife. Amusing himself with photography, his amuse-ment has become, with his restored health, a science,and he now has the Gold Medal from nearly all thegreat photographic exhibitions of the world. He haskindly allowed me to reproduce his picture, and you(500)
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Taken by the Ozi-ner Publish,.: r •::,< ^ i „ n THE GARDEN OF COUNT VON GLODENs VILLA AT TAORMINA, SICILY AND COUNTRY SEATS can see the bower of roses in which his villa issituated. To-night we enjoyed the sunset in the other direc-tion, looking toward the old Badia Vecchia, a fineGothic ruin on the side of the mountain, and beyond,as a background, splendid great Monte Venere, thelights catching the little pink villas that are dottedhere and there on its sides. We went, too, into thetiny theatre that has recently been discovered in theback yard of one of the houses on the main street.Above the old Badia are the commanding ruins ofthe great castle that was formerly the acropolis ofTauromenium, which, after the destruction of Naxos(of whose ruins we had a beautiful view from the littletown of Mola) by Dionysius, in 403 b.c, was foundedby the Siculi to whom Dionysius had granted the neces-sary land. Timaeus the historian was born here. This afternoon we took a drive to the beach b

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