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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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200 ITALY. a semi-circle round the fine harbour, at the entrance to which the Triumphal Arch of theEmperor Trajan is still standing in a state of excellent preservation. But let us return to Rimini, the ancient Ariminum, where the ruins of SigismundMalatestas threatening fortress-castle are crumbling to decay. Rimini lies at the mouthof the Marecchia valley, which is still spanned by the five-arched bridge built by theEmperor Augustus ; and on the opposite side of the town, looking towards the mountains,stands a fine triumphal arch, erected in honour of the same Emperor. Rimini bears,unmistakeably, the aspect of a place that has seen better days. A population of oldwomen, distaff in hand, sits in waiting under the wall of the Duomo, and levies black
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DEPARTURE FOR THE MOUNTAINS. mail on the traveller who approaches to view a building splendid even in its incomplete-ness ;—the great monument which Sigismondo Malatesta caused to be erected to hisformer mistress, the beautiful Isotta, by one of the greatest masters of the dawningRenaissance, Leon Battista Alberti of Florence. This Alberti was the friend and admirerof Brunellcschi ; he designed the facade of Santa Maria Novella, and the Palazzo Rucellaiin Florence, and the supremely beautiful church of Sant Andrea in Mantua. Further on is Pesaro, renowned for its figs, and its villas in the taste of the laterRenaissance, set in a wilderness of gardens. Tasso and Ariosto once sung of them : nowthey are silent and neglected, but from the laurel thickets, which encroach even on to themarble steps, the nightingale is heard to pipe her sweetest songs, and away across theplacid sea, in the warm summer night, the stars of this southern heaven rise large andglowing. Close to the railway sta

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