VERONA TO VENICE--THE TYROLESE ALPS, 168

CHAPTER XV.
VENICE--DEATH OF NATIONS, 178

CHAPTER XVI.
PADUA--ST ANTONY--THE PO--ARREST, 198

CHAPTER XVII.
FERRARA--RENEE AND OLYMPIA MORATA, 209

CHAPTER XVIII.
BOLOGNA AND THE APENNINES, 216

CHAPTER XIX.
FLORENCE AND ITS YOUNG EVANGELISM, 237

CHAPTER XX.
FROM LEGHORN TO ROME--CIVITA VECCHIA, 262

CHAPTER XXI.
MODERN ROME, 276

CHAPTER XXII.
ANCIENT ROME--THE SEVEN HILLS, 289

CHAPTER XXIII.
SIGHTS IN ROME--CATACOMBS--PILATE'S STAIRS--PIO NONO, &C., 302

CHAPTER XXIV.
INFLUENCE OF ROMANISM ON TRADE, 333

CHAPTER XXV.
INFLUENCE OF ROMANISM ON TRADE--(CONTINUED), 352

CHAPTER XXVI.
JUSTICE AND LIBERTY IN THE PAPAL STATES, 366

CHAPTER XXVII.
EDUCATION AND KNOWLEDGE IN THE PAPAL STATES, 401

CHAPTER XXVIII.
MENTAL STATE OF THE PRIESTHOOD IN ITALY, 415

CHAPTER XXIX.
SOCIAL AND DOMESTIC CUSTOMS OF THE ROMANS, 430

CHAPTER XXX.
THE ARGUMENT FROM THE WHOLE, OR, ROME HER OWN WITNESS, 447

ROME,

AND

THE WORKINGS OF ROMANISM

IN ITALY.

CHAPTER I.

THE INTRODUCTION.

I did not go to Rome to seek for condemnatory matter against the Pope's
government. Had this been my only object, I should not have deemed it
necessary to undertake so long a journey. I could have found materials
on which to construct a charge in but too great abundance nearer home.
The cry of the Papal States had waxed great, and there was no need to go
down into those unhappy regions to satisfy one's self that the
oppression was "altogether according to the cry of it." I had other
objects to serve by my journey.

There is one other country which has still more deeply influenced the
condition of the race, and towards which one is even more powerfully
drawn, namely, Judea. But Italy is entitled to the next place, as
respects the desire which one must naturally feel to visit it, and the
instruction one may expect to reap from so doing. Some of the greatest
minds which the pagan world has produced have appeared in Italy. In that
land those events were accomplished which have given