File:Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna (1877) (14796563793).jpg

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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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VIA SAN LUCA, GENOA. OF THE GENOA. 123
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BEFORE THE CONFESSIONAL IN SAN LORENZO. somely paved, and has a fountain in the middle, round which orange-trees and oleandersare planted. From hence the main staircase leads up to the reception-rooms ; thebanisters are of gilt bronze, and there is generally a huge hanging lamp, which is lighted R 2 I24 ITALY. at dusk. The state rooms are magnificent, with folding doors of the costliest woods,and their walls hung with masterpieces of art. A festa in these halls, when they are filledby crowds of the beautiful Genoese ladies, with the eloquent fan in their hands, the goldarrow in their hair, and whole love-stories in their dark eyes, must be an enchantingspectacle. The building whose entrance is guarded by two stone lions, is the University, thecourt-yard of which is reckoned one of the finest in Genoa. It was formerly the College ofthe Jesuits, and was built almost entirely by a member of the Order, who belonged to therich and noble Genoese family of Balbi. Here comes a swarm of studen

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