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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Of THE LUC AN I A, APULIA, AND CALABRIA. 435 shepherds are savage-looking fellows, whose half barbaric costume has been madefamiliar to us by the pictures of brigands : for in these parts brigands and shepherds arepretty closely related ! In order to know these nomade herdsmen and shepherds, onemust cross the Tavogliere di Puglia. Hundreds of thousands of sheep wander acrossthe baked chalky plain towards the western mountains with their promise of fresh water,
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PETRA ROSETI, ON THE CALORE NEAR BENEVENTO. or to the isolated mountain mass of Gargano, which shows blue and tempting from the Gulf ofManfredonia. The plain is abandoned almost entirely to the shepherds ; but on the edgeof the coast there is a series of young and growing cities. They have dedicated them-selves, as it were, to the sea, and seek their chief sustenance from sea commerce, like theGreek settlers of old time. In the three provinces of the Capitanata, Terra di Bari, andTerra di Otranto, from the steadily increasing town of Foggia down to Taranto, may bereckoned a number of cities such as Barletta, Trani, Bari, Brindisi, and Lecce, which allstrive with each other for pre-eminence. Under the same degree of latitude as that in which the Puglian plain runs eastwardof the Gulf of Taranto towards the Ionian Sea, the mountains of Calabria begin theircourse to the west of the same gulf. Each of the three provinces of the Calabrias(citeriore, and ulteriore first and second) is marke

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