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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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OF THE mivERsrrY OF THE NORTHERN WANDERER IN THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA. 293 Not a tile, not a stone, is used to build any new thing on the Campagna. Thedwellings that exist, that appear from a distance to offer hospitable shelter, when youapproach them, prove to be some mediaeval or antique fragment, a piece of fortress wall,to which man has patched on his dwelling, like to the fleeting swallow which the brief
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SHEPHERD OF THE CAMPAGNA. spring brings hither. Those who dwell here have nothing to lose ; and the iron barsbefore the solitary window serve rather for ornament than for security. And yet thoseare happy who can find a home in even such a casale as this ; for hundreds of othersdwell in the low, damp caves of the brown-red tufa quarries, whose walls, blackened bythe smoke of perpetual fires, give but a cheerless shelter. Here stand the beds of rough 294 ITALY. boards covered with fleeces, prepared precisely like the couch which the divine swine-herdEumaeus offered to the home-returning Ulysses. then placed he near to the fireA bed well covered with skins of goats, and with sheepskins.Here Odysseus lay ; and oer him was thrown a mantleAmple, and thick of texture. The baby rests in a coarse basket placed on wooden rollers. Other furniture thereis none in these caves, except guns, agricultural implements, and milk-pans. Some of thepeasants encamp themselves in slight huts woven of reeds a

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