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Title: Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Vol VIII
Italy and Greece, Part Two

Author: Various

Editor: Francis W Halsey

Release Date: August 16, 2006 [EBook #19061]

Language: English

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[Illustration: THE PARTHENON]

SEEING EUROPE

WITH FAMOUS
AUTHORS

SELECTED AND EDITED

WITH
INTRODUCTIONS, ETC.

BY

FRANCIS W. HALSEY

_Editor of "Great Epochs in American History"
Associate Editor of "The World's Famous Orations"
and of "The Best of the World's Classics," etc._

IN TEN

VOLUMES

ILLUSTRATED

Vol. VIII

ITALY, SICILY, AND GREECE

PART TWO

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
NEW YORK AND LONDON

COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
[_Printed in the United States of America_]

CONTENTS OF VOLUME VIII

Italy, Sicily, and Greece--Part Two

IV. THREE FAMOUS CITIES

PAGE

IN THE STREETS OF GENOA--By Charles Dickens 1

MILAN CATHEDRAL--By Hippolyte Adolphe Taine 4

PISA'S FOUR GLORIES--By Hippolyte Adolphe Taine 7

THE WALLS AND "SKYSCRAPERS" OF PISA--By Janet Ross and
Nelly Erichson 11

V. NAPLES AND ITS ENVIRONS

IN AND ABOUT NAPLES--By Charles Dickens 18

THE TOMB OF VIRGIL--By Augustus J. C. Hare 24

TWO ASCENTS OF VESUVIUS--By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 26

ANOTHER ASCENT--By Charles Dickens 31

CASTELLAMARE AND SORRENTO--By Hippolyte Adolphe Taine 37

CAPRI--By Augustus J. C. Hare 42

POMPEII--By Percy Bysshe Shelley 45

VI. OTHER ITALIAN SCENES