File:Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna (1877) (14753992996).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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va stones, and the way is bordered by the golden broom, and many abush and tree. The wide sunburned tract we have seen below, bears the name ofHannibals Camp. It looks like the crater of an extinct volcano, and is covered Avith ascanty vegetation. It is admirably adapted for a military post of observation, for Romeis seen from hence in its whole extent. Our way leads hence up to the sacred seat ofthe gods of these mountains of Albano. This is no common road ; it is the ancient ViaTriumphalis, which led to the temple of Jupiter Latialis, the protecting deity of the LatinConfederation. This road was trodden by the allied peoples when they celebrated theannual festival of the federation, and resounded beneath the hoofs of the Roman horsesbearing their warrior masters with myrtle-wreathed helmets, to celebrate a triumph on thesacred hill. These polygonal blocks of basalt pavement, so wonderfully well preserved,were laid by antique hands. Now they are surrounded by woodland ; and the whole
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OF THE nuMHtSfTY SHORES OF LA GO FUCINO TO THE PONTINE MARSHES. 325 landscape in its silence and solitude has somewhat of the mystery of a sacred grove.On the summit of Monte Cavo, we stand before the consecrated portal of a PassionistConvent, from the shrill sound of whose jangling bells, the old gods fly deep intothe woods. Within the eighteenth century the ancient temple was still standing intolerably good preservation ; but then monkish superstition suppressed it, and that bymeans of an Englishman, Cardinal York, the last of the Stuarts, who erected the uglymonastery on the site of the beautiful temple, and dedicated it to the Trinity.

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