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Title: Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stieler, Karl, 1842-1885 Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Antonio, conte, 1843-1913, former owner. IU-R Paulus, Eduard, 1837-1907 Kaden, Woldemar, 1838-1907 Trollope, Frances Eleanor, d. 1913 Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892
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Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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he Popes and their nephews were wont to enrich Italian templeswith. Statues and pictures crowd every altar; among the former a repulsively anatomicalSt. Bartholomew carrying his own skin over his shoulders ! And to this aestheticenormity the artist has had the good taste to add an inscription setting forth that thefigure is not by Praxiteles, but by himself, Marcus Agrates! The seven-armedcandelabrum which has belonged to the Cathedral of Milan since the middle of thesixteenth century, is world-renowned ; but its origin is still a mystery. Its arms come outfrom the huge stem like the twisted branches of a tree, on which strange figures ofanimals are climbing. Near at hand stands the statue of the Madonna dell Albero, andat her feet sleeps Cardinal Borromeo, whom Manzoni has immortalized in the Promessi 94 ITALY. Sposi. The tomb of his great ancestor, St. Charles himself, is beneath the choir; thecoffin that contains his remains was made at the cost of King Philip the Fourth of Spain ;
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CORSO VITTORIO EMANUELE. it is of pure gold, and if Ignazio Cantu is to be trusted, the chapel of San Carlo containsthe value of more than four millions of francs. But noble and solemn as is the interior of the Duomo, we receive perhaps an evenmore striking impression when, after having climbed the hundreds of steps, we emerge intothe open air on the roof of the huge building. The thousands of marble statues surmounting MILAN. 95 airy pinnacles, seem to be the work of enchantment; and, fairy-like in the distance, wesee the blue chain of the Alps with Mont Blanc shining whitely aloft, and with the greatpasses, which serve for the intercourse of nations, in their shadowy depths. The

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