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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MONUMENT TO LEONARDO DA VINCI. politan air which belongs to every large capital ; and, indeed, several of the streets mightbe in Paris for all one can see to the contrary. The newer streets (above all the GalleriaVittorio Emanuele) are those which bear a more southern stamp. The desire for vast,brilliant spaces, which is expressed in these, is an essential characteristic of the Italian, MILAN. 89 whose whole life tends to external show. One should arrive in the Lombard capital onthe evening of a Festa, and walk through this arcade where thousands of people throng,and thousands of gas-lights flare, to understand what night means in Italy, and to realizethat we are on Italian soil. The foundation stone of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele—a building perhapsunequalled in Europe in its way—was laid on the 4th of March, 1865. In the centre of
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COLUMNS OF SAN LORENZO. the huge cross formed by the building, rises a dome of glass, and the octagon which isoverarched by this dome is richly adorned with frescoes and caryatides, and the statues offamous Italians. Here are Raphael and Dante, Savonarola and Arnold of Brescia. Heretoo Macchiavel has his monument, and opposite to him—his equal in political wisdom, andhis superior in political liberality—stands Cavour. The whole arcade, lighted by twelvehundred jets of gas, wears the aspect of a southern bazaar, and contains ninety-six magnifi-cent shops full of all manner of luxuries ; sparkling ornaments, rich carpets, statues, andpictures. The doors of the cafes are wide open, displaying crimson velvet divans, andhuge mirrors, and the sellers of newspapers push their way among the chattering groupswithin, calling out Persevejanza, Nazione, Fanfulla, cinque ccntesimi! Everythingcombines to make the Ga//eria the brilliant focus of public life : the massive grandeur ofthe building,

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