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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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e to Rome. In approach-ing Spoleto from the railway, we come first to thePorta dclla Fuga, the self-same Etruscan gatewaybefore which Hannibal turned back after the battleof Thrasymene. Within the town are many remains—most of them in a ruinous condition—of mediaevalbuildings : buildings of the time of the Hohenstau-fens, who placed the Swabian Knight, Conrad ofIrslingen, here as Duke of Spoleto. The ancestralcastle of his race may still be seen, ruined and weed-grown, in a remote valley of the WirtembergianBlack Forest. The rule of these Swabian barons did not endurevery long. But between the years 1342 and 1351, ascion of this race, his mind filled with old traditionsand hatreds, undertook to avenge the expulsion ofhis ancestors by carrying warfare and rapine through-out Italy. This was Werner von Irslingen, known as Duke Guarnieri, the leader of a famous band, and styled by himself the enemy ofGod, of pity, and of mercy! The last of the family, Reinald by name, lived a beggared
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AQUEDUCT OF SPOLETO. 206 ITAL V. noble in his castle of Schiltach, in the Black Forest, and when he died was under theweight of grave accusations brought against him by the Imperial courts of justice, inthe year 1446. Castello, once the residence of the most fascinating woman of the fifteenth century,Lucrezia Borgia, stands at a great altitude, and commands an extraordinary view of theamphitheatre of mountains, and down into the rocky valley. This valley is spanned by the highest stone aqueduct in the world; it is more thanseven hundred feet long, and about three hundred feet high,and has ten arches resting on gigantic pillars. It was builtby the Lombard dukes, who ruled here during several cen-turies. The water that runs through its broad channel iscollected among the silent, ever-green oak-woods of MonteLuco, where one or two deserted hermitages and theCapuchin Monastery of San Giuliano stand. Below Spoleto the railway passes through a long-tunnel, underneath the heights that form t

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