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Project Gutenberg's Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One) Author: Various Editor: Francis W. Halsey Release Date: July 16, 2006 [EBook #18845] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SEEING EUROPE WITH FAMOUS *** Produced by Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: Courtesy International Mercantile Marine Co. THE COLISEUM AND ARCH OF TITUS] 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 Worlds Famous Orations" and of "The Best of the World's Classics," etc._ IN TEN VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED Vol. VII ITALY, SICILY, AND GREECE Part One FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY NEW YORK AND LONDON COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY [_Printed in the United States of America_] INTRODUCTION TO VOLUMES VII AND VIII Italy, Sicily and Greece Tourists in great numbers now go to Italy by steamers that have Naples and Genoa for ports. By the fast Channel steamers, however, touching at Cherbourg and Havre, one may make the trip in less time (rail journey included). In going to Rome, four days could thus be saved; but the expense will be greater--perhaps forty per cent. ... "and now, fair Italy! Thou art the garden of the world, the home Of all Art yields, and Nature can decree; Even in thy desert, what is like to thee? Thy very weeds are beautiful, thy waste More rich than other climes' fertility; Thy wreck a glory, and thy ruin graced With an immaculate charm which can not be defaced." At least four civilizations, and probably five, have dominated Italy; together they cover a period of more than 3,000 years--Pelasgian, Etruscan, Greek, Roman, Italian. Of these the Pelasgian is, in the main, legendary. Next came the Etruscan. How old that civilization is no man knows, but its beginnings date from at least
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