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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y hermitage; and one can scarcely help expectingto meet the ancient inhabitants of these hills at every moment. But only poor mountaineers cross our path, with grave and gloomy, or weary andsickly countenances, and wearing the rude costume of the district. Stern, epic Italy, offersto these children of her bosom, a stone instead of bread. Longing and hope have long x x 338 ITAL Y. ago died in these poor souls ;—but so, also, has discontent. The curse of an utter absenceof wants and aspirations, lies like a petrified sunbeam upon the whole range of theSabine Hills. The heart which has been rejoicing in the aspect of this overpoweringnature, is chilled on beholding how wretched are the men in its midst. This landscape isonly delightful to the wandering stranger who is to return in a few days to the plain whereluxuriant cornfields wave beside river-banks, and the joyous grape-vines are slung fromthe elms ; or to the artist, who enchanted with the soft magical tints in which the southern
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PEASANTS OF SORA. SUNDAY REST. sunshine paints the grand outlines of the hills, thinks not of the stony soil over which thebacks of many a generation have been bowed in sterile labour. Civitella!—Has this rocky peak been always inhabited since the days when Titanhands piled up those walls before its gates ? If so we may perhaps understand theattachment to their home of the present inhabitants, who despite hunger and indigence,autumn storms and winter cold, starving or freezing, still cling on here. Civitella is likeSubiaco, one of the painters paradises ; and below Civitella we behold the most famous ofthem, the much vaunted Olevano. With Olevano in sight we will not tarry long onthe steep heights of Civitella; although from thence our thoughts may fly swallow-like togreet the rugged Rojate, the soft Mammelle, the finely shaped Monte Acuto, the whitegleaming cheerful Anagni, Gavignano, Pagliano, gloomy Segni in the glimmeringVolscian Hills, Monte Fortino, and the mountains of Scrime

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