File:Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna (1877) (14590458067).jpg

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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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if* ISC* .„.l\ of THE NORTHERN WANDERER IN THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA. 289 of the Tiber, and on whose walls six Popes one after another have placed their marblescutcheons. But seen near, Ostia is unable to dissimulate the beggars garment she nowwears. Her streets and alleys are empty and deserted. A dozen or so of half-starvedinhabitants, carefully wrapped in shawls and mantles even at midday, glide trembling withfever between the houses which threaten speedily to fall in ruins. Alas, the change ! Allis in fragments; the foot treads on nothing but fragments : —fragments of colouredmosaics, fragments of glass showing prismatic hues, fragments of vases, lamps, ornaments
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OSTIA. and marbles. These form the soil on which the silent town behind the castle is built.Every clod of earth which the travellers staff breaks from the mounds all around containssome relic of the dead city. We stand and gaze; we stoop and pick up handfuls of the oldperished splendours; but we cannot re-construct a complete picture by means of them.The street of tombs must certainly have been more splendid and grandiose than that ofPompeii, as is attested by the remains of its pillars, marbles and mosaic pavements. Thetemple of Jupiter must have been equally fine. It stands on a low hill above the city,and must have had an imposing effect from the surrounding plain, both by reason of itsnoble architecture and its brilliant marble facings. The interior walls of brick-work arestill in good preservation, and a flight of marble steps leads up to the golden house of theFather of the Gods. The huge slab of African marble which forms the threshold in frontof the principal entrance is also

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