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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece by John Addington Symonds 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.net Title: Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece Author: John Addington Symonds Release Date: February 8, 2005 [EBook #14972] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SKETCHES IN ITALY *** Produced by Ted Garvin, Leonard Johnson and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team SKETCHES AND STUDIES IN ITALY AND GREECE BY JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS AUTHOR OF "RENAISSANCE IN ITALY", "STUDIES OF THE GREEK POETS," ETC FIRST SERIES NEW EDITION LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W. 1914 PREFATORY NOTE In preparing this new edition of the late J.A. Symonds's three volumes of travels, 'Sketches in Italy and Greece,' 'Sketches and Studies in Italy,' and 'Italian Byways,' nothing has been changed except the order of the Essays. For the convenience of travellers a topographical arrangement has been adopted. This implied a new title to cover the contents of all three volumes, and 'Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece' has been chosen as departing least from the author's own phraseology. HORATIO F. BROWN. Venice: _June_ 1898. CONTENTS THE LOVE OF THE ALPS WINTER NIGHTS AT DAVOS BACCHUS IN GRAUBUeNDEN OLD TOWNS OF PROVENCE THE CORNICE AJACCIO MONTE GENEROSO LOMBARD VIGNETTES COMO AND IL MEDEGHINO BERGAMO AND BARTOLOMMEO COLLEONI CREMA AND THE CRUCIFIX CHERUBINO AT THE SCALA THEATRE A VENETIAN MEDLEY THE GONDOLIER'S WEDDING A CINQUE CENTO BRUTUS TWO DRAMATISTS OF THE LAST CENTURY SKETCHES AND STUDIES IN ITALY AND GREECE _THE LOVE OF THE ALPS_[1] Of all the joys in life, none is greater than the joy of arriving on the outskirts of Switzerland at the end of a long dusty day's journey from Paris. The true epicure in refined pleasures will never travel to Basle by night. He courts the heat of the sun and the monotony of French plains,--their sluggish streams and never-ending poplar trees--for the sake of
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