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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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s, which afford a safe retreat to the wild woodland animals, and likewise to thebrigands, who need fear no myrmidons of the law in these forests. The flocks and herdsof Apulia are pastured on the cleared spots, and the shepherds fires shine amidst theshadows of the foliage. From hence you can pursue your way through the woods to Sant Angelo, anddescend by winding paths to the ancient Sipontum. It was colonized by the Romans ;but in consequence of the fever which prevailed here, the town was rebuilt by Manfredunder the name of Manfredonia, on a site somewhat higher, and nearer to the coast. 44Q ITALY. In Santa Maria Maggiore di Siponto, a ruined cathedral, and extensive catacombs stillremind us of the fact that an important city once stood here. The dreary flat coast landscape to the south of Manfredonia, exactly resembles thePontine Marshes ; and the neighbourhood of Cannae on the Ofanto is of the samecharacter. Intense melancholy broods over these dreary plains, and of Cannae (which,
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CANOSA ANTICA. however, was but an unimportant city) no vestige remains. Now and then, perhaps,the peasants hoe strikes against a fragment of marble, or turns up coins, and pieces ofarmour from the swampy soil. The greatest drama of ancient history was played onthis spot ; and the back-ground of the stage is formed by the exquisitely curving Gulfof Manfredonia, and the dark woody heights of the Gargano rising above it. The road passes through Canosa with its Mediaeval fortress on the height, along theOfanto, through Lavello to Melfi and Venosa. Who would not feel some enthusiasm atthe name of Venosa, which is associated with the amiable Venus, and with Horace, whosebirthplace it is ? Vcnusia, the famous city of antiquity ! It was situated at a veryimportant point in the Roman world : the boundaries of Samnium, Lucania, and Apulia,and on the great road between Samnium and Tarentum. And when the Romans put LUC AN I A, APULIA, AND CALABRIA. 441 twenty thousand colonists into the town abo

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