English: Identifier: italyfromalpstom00stie

Title: Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna Year: 1877 (1870s) Authors: Stieler, Karl, 1842-1885 Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Antonio, conte, 1843-1913, former owner. IU-R Paulus, Eduard, 1837-1907 Kaden, Woldemar, 1838-1907 Trollope, Frances Eleanor, d. 1913 Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892 Subjects: Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Text Appearing Before Image: le steps, the nightingale is heard to pipe her sweetest songs, and away across theplacid sea, in the warm summer night, the stars of this southern heaven rise large andglowing. Close to the railway station, on the shore, the Swan of Pesaro has at lengthfound a resting place ! I allude to the monument of the great maestro Rossini ; therehe sits, snuff-box in hand, with his pleasant, smiling, shrewd, rather Epicurean face,—the BESIDE THE ADRIATIC. 201 man who never travelled on a railway, now exposed henceforward to the close vicinity ofyelling- locomotives ! Then comes Sinigaglia, the birth-place of Catalani ; a clean, industrious, well-to-dolittle town, where one of the greatest fairs in all Italy is held. Many Jews are to befound here. Count August von Platen, one of the most indefatigable of Italian travellers,says that he found at the fair of Sinigaglia very little German merchandise, but a greatnumber of Nuremberg toys, which he proceeds to apostrophise sentimentally as a symbol

Text Appearing After Image: CATHEDRAL OF ANCONA. of his Fatherland ! But Sinira^lia has other and less trivial reminiscences : amongstthem the destruction of one of the greatest Peoples of Antiquity. The battle of theMetaurus fought against Hasdrubal, Hannibals brother, took place close to this spot.The victory of the Romans, although hardly won and bloody, was complete ; the Car-thaginian army, unable to retreat, was utterly destroyed and its encampment taken bystorm. Hasdrubal, when he saw that the bravely-contested battle was lost, sought andfound, like his father, Hamilcar, a soldiers death. The day after the battle, the ConsulNero broke up his positions, and after an absence of less than fourteen days, once moreconfronted Hannibal in Apulia. Hannibal had received no tidings from his brother, andwas ignorant of his fate. The first news was brought him by the Roman Consul, whocaused the head of Hasdrubal to be thrown into the enemys outposts. Then Hannibalperceived that he had hoped in vain, and that all was

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