File:Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna (1877) (14753862756).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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Now that is all changed.
Thousands of printed leaves flutter about, political birds of every feather,
satirical bats, and quarrelsome sparrows, fly around the windows of the Vatican, the
exclusive mansions of sullen pride, and the dwellings of the cit. They croak, and
screech, and pipe, and chirp, and flute, in the morning sky. Many a one stops his ears,
but the sound penetrates even through his dreams. In these days the black robe of
the priest is seldom seen amid the crowd; the carriage of a cardinal rarely rolls along
the Corso (never with pomp and state), and a promenade on the Pincian Hill is no longer
agreeable to high dignitaries. They used to take such pleasure in listening to the French
military bands there,—and it is a year or two since the French have made music among
the laurel trees of the Pincian !
Another circumstance has given a new and not unbecoming colour to the aspect of
Rome : the increase, namely, of trade and commerce and civil industry. The Roman is
not slothful by nature, but his all too huge calendar of festivals placed itself like a barrier
as wide as a church door between him and his work, and accustomed him to spend his
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Seminaarist

THE ETERNAL CITY IN A MODERN TOGA. 245

time with folded hands, or in some trivial game. The Piedmontese invaders have cut and
curtailed the aforesaid calendar in all directions, and no one seems to long for its restora-
tion to its former completeness. Labour has already put forth a hopeful blossom, and

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