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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he dustof many a great highway ? Yet Isernia might tempt one to stay. This, the ancientCEsernia, is a thoroughly Italian town in the midst of a noble landscape. On one side ofit a deep valley opens, furrowed on either hand by countless smaller valleys running downfrom the mountains in the background. On one slope of the main valley rises a highwall, and above this peep, in picturesque confusion, mediaeval houses, villas, and palaceswith colonnades in the Italian style. Roof, porch, and window are hung and clothed andwreathed with the tendrils of the vine, whose leaves, moreover, give a pleasant shade,beneath which brightly costumed women sit and spin. Red oleanders and fresh-blown ITALY. roses greet the traveller : flocks of white pigeons fly across the blue sky :—this is the realItaly, the land of peace and pleasure ! But I would advise the wayfarer only to glance at the picture from a distance, andthen to hasten onward, so as to preserve a pleasant image in his memory ; for bitter
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GRAN SASSO DlTALIA. disappointment awaits him in the interior of the town, and the beds of the inn are filledwith anything but bright illusions! I must own that the ham in the town is excellent;but, en revanche, the animal that furnishes it enjoys the privilege of too unbounded aliberty ! Outside the city gates one may enjoy life once more. Silver mountain streamsflow on every side, as rivulets or rivers; there is the Lorda, that rises behind MonteSecco, and yonder the Cavaliere waters the well-cultivated plain of San Vito, and these FROM THE GRAN SASSO D ITALIA TO VESUVIUS. 353 are fed by many sparkling- rills. So long as man is able to command and distribute thewater, everything is greener and more flourishing under this Italian sun than anywhereelse in the world ; but when, as is the case in the neighbouring plain, it dashes headlongfrom the treeless hills, covering the flat fields with mud and pebbles, the thistle flourishes,and even Springs most genial rays produce only useless w

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