Identifier: italyfromalpstom00stie (find matches)
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
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Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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re of ruins. It is the same with Ronciglione,and Monterondo ; all destroyed in the germ, or checked in fuller growth, by the harshfeudal times ! Montefiascone, the once flourishing place renowned for its Est-est, now,alas, mortmis est! These and many another proud name we hear, for there were onceno fewer than twenty-three flourishing populous cities in the Campagna. But truly this ishard to believe, when the bearers of these proud names are pointed out to us at thepresent day, a few grey, wretched groups of houses, whose inhabitants are lost in the widewilderness, and leave no trace behind. On leaving the green belt of gardens that girdle Rome, where elm and vine stillgreet us cheerfully above the walls, a brief pilgrimage brings us into the midst of a house-less solitude. No cheerful villages nestle close to the ancient mother. Lapped for longcenturies in the pious luxury of ecclesiastical splendour, lazy, loveless, she has let herchildren perish of famine,—she has murdered them !
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OF THE mivERsrrY OF THE NORTHERN WANDERER IN THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA. 293 Not a tile, not a stone, is used to build any new thing on the Campagna. Thedwellings that exist, that appear from a distance to offer hospitable shelter, when youapproach them, prove to be some mediaeval or antique fragment, a piece of fortress wall,to which man has patched on his dwelling, like to the fleeting swallow which the brief

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