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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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pared in the recent spring storms of new Italianunity ; for this reason Protestants as well as Catholics approach it respectfully, and rejoicein the treasures which monkish industry has stored up in its archives. Of the originalmonastery, as it arose according to Benedicts plan, only a few wall fragments remain.For the fate which the stormy Middle Ages brought to all countries, did not spare it, andmore than once the torch of war was hurled into its quiet courtyards. What we see nowis a large mass of building, almost like a city, dating from the last century, and allowingfree entrance to light and air. But if you step outside the portal, you find yourself atonce in the midst of the mountain wilderness, in whose glimmering depths the eye soonloses itself. It is like a dream to see these modern times glide past on iron rails throughthe valley at our feet; it is like a dream to hear the shrill whistle of the locomotive as itcarries a caravan of travellers southward to the distant Naples.
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UPRAHYor THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FROM THE BANKS OF THE LIRIS TO THESHORES OF THE SIRENS. COMPANION LANDSCAPES. Italy, Oh thou art fair ! As the maidenMirrors her bridal arrayIn the brook, so thou seest smiling,Glassed in two seas, thy perfections !Fair art thou ;—fair beside Naples,Exquisite bay, in Tassos verdant Sorrento,Mid the lava of thy Vesuvius ! Halm. EXCURSION FROM THE GRAN SASSO DlTALIA TO VESUVIUS. ISING like a majestic cloud-capped Alpine pillar between the two seas,—theTyrrhene and the Adriatic,—which girdle the peninsula, and visible from afarover all the valleys of the Samnite country, stands the Gran Sasso dltalia.Around this mountain are gathered all the lines of the Apennine, belonging tothe provinces of the Abruzzi, converging from every direction. It is the central knot ofthe tangle of mountains which runs from north to south, and indeed of the wholepeninsula. This is the real point of division between north and south : you recognise itin the light and hea

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