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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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offer a perfection of artistic unity such as scarcelyanother edifice in Italy can boast of. We stand dumb with admiring astonishment beforethe exquisite facade. A spirit of holiness seems to breathe through these halls, through thesesolitary alleys, to whose influence we involuntarily resign ourselves. There does not reignhere that empty idleness, weary of existence itself, which we find in so many monasteries :but on the contrary, a dignity and strength which concentrates life into silent reflectioninstead of squandering it in the bustle of the outer world. It is fulness of thought, andnot poverty of intellect, which characterizes this solitude, and glorious works of art exaltthe spirits of the pilgrims who approach these gates. That, too, is a kind of worship.We lingered nearly a whole clay in the classic halls of the Certosa, and then returned toMilan. To-morrow we start from thence for the beautiful Lake of Como, where the bustleof the capital changes softly into a moonlit Idyll!
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OF THE BELLAGGIO, SEEN FROM VILLA GIULIA. THREE LAKES. LAGO DI COMO. EAR Cadenabbia there is a road winding along beneath green arches of the vine,or under the blue canopy of heaven, now hidden from a view of the landscape,now opening out so as to allow the mountains mirrored in the soft waters tobe seen. The natives call this road Via del Paradiso,— The road ofParadise ; and the words linger in our memory all the while we tarry here, for trulythe whole enchanting district of the three lakes is a Paradise. We have seen many amasterpiece of mans handiwork during our pilgrimage, but here nature has set hermasterpiece ; and as we see certain stars that surpass all the others in their lustre, soshines pre-eminent in beauty this triple star of the Three Lakes, amid the heaven ofItaly. How exquisitely refreshing is this soft air to one coming from the crowdedtown! As we wander by steep ways through the little villages perched high above theshore, the peasant who passes us with his laden m

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