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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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pers,to dim its purity. To-morrow the same sun will rise, bright as the sun that dazzledHomer. This is the same perfumed air in which the victorious banners of the legionsfluttered of old, and whose warm caresses have been fatal to so many monarchs. Thekingdom of this world and the kingdom of the Cross were cradled in this little shadow-filled valley, watered by a lazy, inconsiderable stream. Both sovereignties are lost toRome now : For when thy sword had won and mastered all,Thou sankst again with all in barbarous night.But thence arose anon new blood, new life ;In vain hast thou destroyed, in vain hast striven ;Only the echo of the clanking chainsWith which thou once didst bind and fetter EuropeLives in the speech of France, Spain, Italy ! In this latter tongue, one of thy noblest ornaments, I give thee, beloved city, my farewellgreeting. But it shall not be Felice nolle! for thy long night has changed into clearand cheerful daylight. I wish thee Felice giorno ! Felicissima elemild!
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Of THF VIA APPIA. A WORD ABOUT CICERONI. LETTER to the publisher, which the author desires to present to thepublic also. Naples.My Dear Sir, Ac nc me foliis ideo brcvioribus ornes,Quod timui mutarc modos, et carminis artcm.—Horace. When I had the gratification of serving as a sort of cicerone to you throughthe most enchanting localities of this classic land, I could not help admiring you in myown mind as the very ideal of a traveller in Italy. Especially I admired your contempla-tive calmness, and the wise moderation with which you enjoyed the pleasures around you.Of course I speak here of such pleasures as are conveyed to the mind through the eye ;the purest and most innocent of pleasures :—those bestowed by the beauties of landscapeand of art. Without bewildering yourself amongst a labyrinth of details and particulars,you rather strove to obtain a harmonious conception of the whole,—to keep a completeimage in your mind, so that on your return home you could analyse the compone

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