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Title: Guide to Italy and Sicily
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Macmillan & Co
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Publisher: London, MacMillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ral reliefs and carvings, withtwo angels on sculptured columnsby Mino da Fiesole. Opening outof the transept is the Chapel ofS. Carlo, with a painting of theMadonna and Saints by TaddeoBartoli, an Annunciation by LucaSignorelli, and other pictures. In the adjacent Baptistery aresculptured ornaments by Balsamelloda Settignano, a font by AndreaSansovino, and a tabernacle byMino da Fiesole. The Museo Nazionale has avaluable collection of Etruscanantiquities, including funeral urnsand caskets, statuettes, bronzes, in-scriptions, vases, coins, and orna-ments in gold. Many of the urns areof pure white alabaster, which isstill so common in the district thatthe roads are often mended with it. After the Museum and the walls,the most interesting of the Etruscanremains at Volterra is the Tomb atthe Villa higher ami, nearly 2 m.E. of the town. On the way to itwe pass the Convent of S. Girolamo,which has two good terra- cottareliefs of the Robbia school, and anAnnunciation by Benvenuto diGiovanni.
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Longitude Bast of Greenwich Sttxnfirds G*o#raph> E6tub? London. London : Macrmllan &Co., Ltd. SICILY. PART I.—INTRODUCTORY. PAGE General Description 342 History 343 Race and Language 346 Climate 347 Time and Arrangement op Tour 349 Archeology and Art 350 Philosophy and Literature 353 Railways, etc 355 PART II.-TOPOGRAPHICAL AND LOCAL. Palermo— 357 Objects of Interest 358 Excursions from Palermo . . . . . . 360 Girgenti 364 JSyracuse 366 iCatania and Etna . 369 Taormina 371 Messina 372 Termini 373 Other Tours in Sicily 373 i 341 SICILY. PAKT I. INTRODUCTORY. SICILY occupies a central posi- Of the latter, the Piano di Ca-tion in the Great Mediter- tania, the Campi Lasstrygonii ofranean Sea, of which it is the most the ancients, is one of the mostimportant island. It is separated extensive, and forms the mostfrom Italy by the Straits of important wheat-growing districtMessina, 2 miles wide, and from in the island. Castrogiovanni,Tunisia by less than 80 miles of the ancient Enn

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