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Title: Italian Journeys
Author: William Dean Howells
Release Date: December 6, 2004 [EBook #14276]
Language: English
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ITALIAN JOURNEYS
By
W.D. Howells
1867 and 1895
PAGE
CONTENTS.
The Road to Rome from Venice:
I. Leaving Venice 9
II. From Padua to Ferrara 10
III. The Picturesque, the Improbable, and
the Pathetic in Ferrara 14
IV. Through Bologna to Genoa 43
V. Up and Down Genoa 52
VI. By Sea from Genoa to Naples 65
VII. Certain Things in Naples 75
VIII. A Day in Pompeii 89
IX. A Half-hour at Herculaneum 106
X. Capri and Capriotes 116
XI. The Protestant Ragged Schools at Naples 136
XII. Between Rome and Naples 147
XIII. Roman Pearls 151
Forza Maggiore 178
At Padua 196
A Pilgrimage to Petrarch's House at Arqua 216
A Visit to the Cimbri 235
Minor Travels:
I. Pisa 251
II. The Ferrara Road 259
III. Trieste 264
IV. Bassano 274
V. Possagno, Canova's Birthplace 280
VI. Como 285
Stopping at Vicenza, Verona, and Parma 293
Ducal Mantua 321
THE ROAD TO ROME FROM VENICE.
I.
LEAVING VENICE.
We did not know, when we started from home in Venice, on the 8th of
November, 1864, that we had taken the longest road to Rome. We thought
that of all
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