File:Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna (1877) (14590301418).jpg

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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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ence for sixteen or seventeen poverty-stricken years, the lean, brown girl before shecan wear her marriage wreath of scanty blossoms, the weather-beaten, hardy man and hiswife amidst her joyless and toilsome existence,—all these the malaria takes year after yearand drags them pitilessly to death, and hunts them, dying, across the sun-burned heath,and returns ever greedier of prey again and again. Thus the grim reaper strides over theCampagna, and passes no threshold by. In a few years the hut is empty, the fox glidesin at the broken door, and the rain and the wind beat in at the unglazed windows. 236 ITALY. Reeds and rank grass spring up all around, and bye and bye a light-hearted painter comesand finds a delightfully picturesque bit of ruin. He paints it and whistles gaily the lastnew song,—and next year a storm blows away the last remnant of the poor dwelling, and their place knows them no more. There was a time, indeed, when all this coast was flourishing, when the sea-sand did
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HERDSMAN IN THE CAMPAGNA. not girdle the land with its deadly silver band, and when a thriving healthy populationinhabited it down to the very edge of the blue waves that washed the marble thresholdsof their cities. And when they turned their gaze back from the sea, they looked upon agreen, well-cultivated land, that stretched away to the mountains of the Tibers source.The people called themselves Laurentians, and the chief cities of that time were Antium,the hoary sea-town of the Volscians ; Ardea, the home of the bold Turnus and the valiantRutuli; and Lavinium, the splendid and venerable mountain city. In Laurentum thesacred laurel grew, and seafaring folks landed here from far and near to bring theirofferings and gifts from foreign lands to the sacred shrine of Mars. The sailorsencamped under the consecrated trees, enjoying their friendly shade, and listening to theoracles of the tapping woodpecker, that promised them a prosperous voyage home. Allthat is past and gone, buried benea

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