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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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e ghost of yet another man rises up before us as we explore Trieste and itsneighbourhood. Not far from Grignano, a castle stretches out into the sea : it isMiramar, the knightly citadel, the Tusculum of Maximilian before he met his tragicfate at Queretaro. The battlements of the castle are sheltered from the sea by hugedams built of Istrian stone ; broad flights of steps lead down beneath alleys over-archedwith green foliage to the soft, sandy shore, whence you look over marble balustradesacross the wide expanse of the blue Adriatic. Even the stranger who wanders beneaththese leafy shades, and listens to the nightingales that ever haunt them, feels his heartdrawn towards the place; how dear then must it have been to the ill-starred Prince whopassed his happy youth there ! He has fallen by the bullets of an enemy whom hetried to combat with the higher weapons of intellect; his wife, the noble kings daughter,is sunk in madness, and desolate by the sea-shore stands the Castle of Miramar.
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VIEW OF MANTUA FROM THE BRIDGE OF SAN GIORGIO. MANTUA. N the winter of 1809 a hero was executed by the muskets of French soldiers inthe fortress of Mantua, and we may almost say that the sound of those shotsstill echoes in the memory of the people. The bloody deed then accom-plished, so outraged the feelings of contemporaries, that it left, as it were, anineffaceable stain upon the town itself, for whosoever now speaks of Mantua, anothername immediately rises to his lips,—the name of the patriot Andreas Hofer. So entirelydoes the world of to-day sympathise with the feelings of those who indignantly beheldHofers cruel fate, that we run some risk of forgetting, in the contemplation of this heroicman, who belongs so entirely to our modern history, how many other great names are athome in Mantua. This town shares in full measure the peculiarity we have pointed out as belonging tomost of the Italian cities : namely, that its civic records are more important than thehistory of many states

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