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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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nthe waste Campagna, and the poor shepherd preserves an attitude of dignity even beneath the ragged folds of hismiserable mantle. It was this sense of self-esteem which kept up the Romans during times of darkness,and preserved the main mass of the people sound, despite the deplorable education whichwas always endeavouring to chip the fine marble into paltry puppets. This self-esteemkept him from vain and weak complainings, restrained him from cowardly revenge, andtaught him to despise death. Even to-day the Quirites know how to die as proudly andtranquilly as their forefathers, who ever looked Death manfully in the face. You maycall it rude harshness, that the Romans of to-day, as those of old, are destitute of theamiable germanic sympathy with nature, that they are ready with the knife as their fatherswith the sword, that they have little feeling for the sufferings of the brute creation :—butthere is character in all this ; more character than in the effeminate youths who turn pale
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CHURCHYARD AT MONTE SERRONE. 240 ITALY. if a pigeon has to be slaughtered, and break out into cowardly lamentations, if they feelthe least pain. The Roman Republic cultivated and created this stern character, andthrough it old Rome grew strong and mighty and able to rule the nations : through itshe may again become strong and powerful, when once the effect of the years duringwhich this natural quality was forcibly repressed and perverted, shall somewhat havepassed away. For between a Decius Mus rushing upon death for a noble cause, andthe youth who sacrifices his life for an unworthy one, there is only the difference ofeducation and aim. The Roman women offer an equally fine picture. They are the direct opposite ofa German Gretchen whose blond tresses are wound round a gentle dreamy little head,and whose blue eyes look even by day as though they were full of the soft glimmer ofmoonlight. The Roman woman typifies clear decision. She is the representative ofserious and majestic womanhoo

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