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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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ates of the city. Their sound overpowered the plash of the fountains, the bells of thechurches, and the voices of the chanting monks. The smoke of the great guns enteredin at the open doors of the temples, and was more powerful than the sensuous sweet odourof incense. And the Roman awoke ! H H 234 ITALY. He awoke, rubbed his sleepy eyes, and perceived that he was dwelling amid ruins ;he perceived that his paternal roof-tree was ready to fall on his head and crush him, andhe aroused himself thoroughly. He addressed himself manfully to the task of preparing anew garment for the old city, and the time will soon come when the wealth of water andthe superfluity of churches will cease to be the only distinguishing characteristics of Rome.In a few years Rome will stand on a level with the foremost European capitals. But asyet she has not reached that level;—a fact of which we may convince ourselves by ourvery first walk through the city. In the course of time the wilderness had invaded her
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VILLA LANTE ON THE JANICULUM. very streets, the waste landscape of the Campagna pressed close around her gates, like aswarm of beggars before the marble steps of a palace ; so that the proud old patrician citywith her palaces of counts and dukes, her villas of barons and cardinals, was absolutely indanger of becoming utterly ruralized, and of being over-run by rude shepherds and cattle-drivers. Had not the buffalo and the white ox long since been seen—growing bolder andmore numerous day by day,—on the Forum, in the Capitol, desecrating the sacredest ruins? Picturesque ! you say ? Yes ; picturesque enough, but scarcely in accordance withmodern conceptions of the civilization of a great metropolis, such as Rome desired toappear before all eyes ! Grass grew on every piazza, goats were pastured in front ofthe Lateran, and the lazy, dirty, insolent beggar of the Campagna encamped himself withwife and children wheresoever it seemed good to him. Picturesque also these streetgroups ;—ad

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