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Identifier: italiancastlesco00batcrich (find matches)
Title: Italian castles and country seats
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Batcheller, Tryphosa Bates, 1878-
Subjects: Castles -- Italy Historic buildings -- Italy Italy -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, Longmans, Green, and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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the railroad bridges into Venice, but Her-colani arranged everything very nicely and quicklyfor us. We found an excellent garage, and had nodifficulty in getting our trunks through the city cus-toms at Venice, and into our >inci«.«us rooms in time of a place if ones physical creature comf4^iSp;xia^l9^bedafter! I always think of George Eliots expression,It is hard for us to live up to our own eloquence, andkeep pace with our winged words while we are treadingthe solid earth and liable to heavy dining. Anyhow,we are much more comfortable than we have beenbefore in Venice, because Hercolani comes to thisHotel de V Europe every year, and sent his specialinstructions on to the proprietor to look after ourcomfort. We have made arrangements to have aprivate gondola for the week we are to be here, and Ithink the complete change from the car, and a breathof the sea, will do me a great deal of good. But I mustnot forget to tell you how perfectly beautiful the roadwas on the way here. (138)
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AND COUNTRY SEATS The morning was rather warm when we left Bologna,but in the car we did not realize it until one of thetires announced with pistol-shot noise that the heat hadcertainly been too much for its endurance. Much of the way the road lay beside the broadcanals which the Venetians put back through theirpicturesque Venetia in the old days. In places thecountry is what we, at home, should call mountainous,but here is considered merely rolling. Every now andagain we could discover on the hillsides stately villas,and Hercolani pointed out one near which he saysis a boiling spring, that by means of careful piping,heats the whole villa in the late autumn. We took our lunch in historic Ferrara, and I feelone could almost write a book about the castle alone.I took a photograph of one of the grim towers of thecastle, where the beautiful, pleasure-loving, young,artistic, athletic Marchesa Parisina Malatesta, wife ofNiccolo III, was made to expiate the crime of her guiltylove with Ugo A

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