File:Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna (1877) (14754338576).jpg

Identifier: italyfromalpstom00stie (find matches)
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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FROM A VILLA, CASTELLAMARE. A SEA VOYAGE FROM BAI/E TO SALERNO. 409 Sorrento, too, lives but in the present. Those who come hither seem to look intothe face of Spring ; and no one would think of raising the veil of ivy from the forehead ofsome crumbling temple, to explore the secrets of the past. Already in the later days of
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GORGE NEAR SORRENTO. the Roman Republic, the proud inhabitants of the capital came to this city, which boastedof the special protection of Bacchus and Venus, to enjoy sunny leisure, And at thepresent day the sons and daughters of the green islands of Britain, sick children fromdistant Russia, and people from all the ends of the earth come hither. A path leads downfrom the steep and lofty cliffs on which the town is situated, through a narrow gorge, tothe sea-beach, where, on a strip of sand between the waves and the vineyards, the fisher- 3 g 4io ITAL Y. mens houses stand. This spot is the haunt of mirth and jollity on festivals and summerevenings ; the people sing and dance to the rhythmic beat of the tambourine, and theirbrown faces glow with enjoyment and wine, which beams red and clear in huge pitchers.The fine ladies on the terraces above,—for the most part delicate, fragile, sickly-lookingcreatures,—and the spruce gentlemen, eye-glass in eye, lean over the balcony of the hot

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