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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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ROAD TO THE CHURCH OF SUPERGA. public monument. GV Italiani dogni Provincia is inscribed on the monument toVincenzo Gioberti, erected in i860; although the means by which Gioberti endeavouredto attain his countrys independence were singularly ill-chosen, inasmuch as he hoped togain that end by the assistance of the Papacy! But the Italians forgave their great manthis radical error, and remembered only that the aim and object of his life was LPndipen-denza aItalia. TURIN. 5 Despite the removal of the capital southward, the streets of Turin are still very livelyand full of traffic. The houses are lofty, with elegant balconies; and the ground-floor isgenerally shaded by open arcades containing handsome shops. In the narrower streets
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rORJW PALATINA, you frequently come upon interesting glimpses of old-fashioned court-yards overgrownwith creeping plants ; at the street corners you find kiosgnes after the Paris fashion, filledwith newspapers and caricatures from all parts of the world. A motley population ofpassers by is mirrored in the splendid plate glass of the shop fronts, and yonder, whereyou see a huge beehive stuck up over the door as a sign, is the savings-bank. Q 2 n6 ITAL1 \ On Sundays the churches are well filled; La Gran Madre di Dio and La Consolata,and above all the cathedral in which the young Rousseau, once upon a time made profes-sion of the catholic faith. At three oclock one Sunday afternoon Ave strolled into thecathedral just as a troop of children had assembled for religious instruction. They wereall seated on low benches arranged in a hollow square, the boys on one side and thegirls on the other. The lessons had not yet begun when we entered, and the youngrascals were chattering at the full pit

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