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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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COFFEE-HOUSE ON THE RIVA DEGLI SCHIAVONI. UNIVERSITY Or ILLINOIS VENICE. 69 greets us, his oar in his left hand, his right raised with a slight gesture of salutation; the blueshirt bound at the waist by a red sash, reveals his open breast, and his sunburnt face looksfrankly at us. A moment, and the picturesque, sinewy figure is in full movement; theoar dips deep into the wave, and the bark shoots like an arrow along the Grand Canal. It is the largest of the four hundred watery ways which intersect Venice. Nearly fourmiles in length stretches the broad stream from Santa Chiara to the Giudecca. Alongthe Canal Grande rise the noblest palaces of those great old families whose names werewritten in the Libro dOro—the Golden Book—of the Republic. That book wasburned on the open Piazza in 1797, when the Western Tempest broke over Venice : itwas a hurricane such as even those children of the ocean had never yet witnessed, and itsname was—Egaliti ! On the narrow point of land exactly oppo

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