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Identifier: italy00finn (find matches)
Title: Italy
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Finnemore, John, b. 1863
Subjects: Italy -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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inued) . . . .48 XII. THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA . . . . • S2 XIII. AT NAPLES . . . . . . . 56 XIV. THE GREAT VOLCANO . . . . . 61XV. THE BURIED CITIES ...... 64 XVI. IN SICILY ........ 68 xvii. IN SICILY (continued) ...... 73 XVIII. HOME LIFE IN ITALY . . . . . 78 XIX. THE ITALIAN PEASANT . . . . -83 * * * ec «« « LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS A PERGOLA LOOKING OUT ON MOUNT VESUVIUS frontispiece AN ALPINE PASS IN SUMMER ...... A GARDEN AT CADENABBIA, LAKE COMO ...THE VILLA PLINY, LAKE COMO . . . . ENTRANCE TO THE GRAND CANAL, VENICE . . .PIAZZA DELLA SIGNORIA, WITH THE PALAZZO VECCHIO,FLORENCE ......... A SHOP IN THE MERCATO VECCHIO, FLORENCE . -THE COLOSSEUM IN A STORM, ROME . . . . HADRIANS TOMB, THE CASTLE OF ST. ANGELO, ROME .THE ARCH OF CONSTANTINE, ROME . . . . NAPLES AND MOUNT VESUVIUS ... A STREET IN POMPEII .... . A SHRINE IN VENICE on the FACING PAGE 2 91 625 32 4148 56 647380 cover Sketch-Map of Italy on page viii VI1 AUSTRIA BOSNIA Str. of Bonifacio TYRRHENIAN «// of Toronto AFRICA
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SKETCH-MAP OF ITALY. Vlll ITALY CHAPTER I OVER THE ALPS TO ITALY A land Which was the mightiest in its old command,And is the loveliest, and must ever beThe master-mould of Natures heavenly hand;Wherein were cast the heroic and the free,The beautiful, the brave, the lords of earth and sea.* The commonwealth of Kings, the men of Rome !And ever since, and now, fair Italy!Thou art the garden of the world, the homeOf all Art yields, and Nature can decree ;Even in thy desert, what is like to thee ?Thy very weeds are beautiful, thy wasteMore rich than other climes fertility ;Thy wreck a glory, and thy ruin gracedWith an immaculate charm which cannot be defaced. Ckilde Harold. THE traveller of to-day rushes into the most lovelycountry of Europe by train, through tunnels pierced inthe vast mountain chain of the Alps. But travellers IT. I I Peeps at Many Lands of other days did not enter Italy so easily. Theyclimbed out of France or Switzerland by roads whichzigzagged up the broad flanks of th

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