Identifier: handbookforitaly00broc (find matches)
Title: The hand-book for travellers in Italy, from London to Naples
Year: 1838 (1830s)
Authors: Brockedon, William, 1787-1854 Stanfield, Clarkson, 1793-1867 Prout, Samuel, 1783-1852 Finden, Edward Francis, 1791-1857 Finden, W. (William), 1787-1852
Subjects: Italy -- Guidebooks
Publisher: London : M.A. Nattali
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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The country around Florence is most beautiful;and excursions, especially to Fiesole and Vallom-brosa, should, if the traveller have time, not beneglected. Nor should he omit to see the manlygame of Pallone played; it is now almost peculiar to 120 TURIN TO FLORENCE. Florence, and may usually be seen without the PortaPinti. It was an ancient Roman game, requiringgreat skill and vigour, by which a large, inflatedball made of leather is struck over a line whichdivides the players: the blow is given from the forearm, which is shielded by a wooden guard, coveredwith knobs, into which the arm is thrust. Whilst the traveller is in Florence, it is desirablethat he should know, that many articles, the posses-sion of which he may consider comforts, can be hadthere of Mr. Lowe ; such as, genuine English medi-cines, drugs, and soda powders, from Savory andMoore; stationary, papers, colours, pencils, sketch-books, &c. from Waller of Fleet-street; and othergoods from the first houses in London.
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MAJE OF THE liOlTTES TJkOM: TX-OIiJEINCE TO.KOMJE London, PublisliedlwJbTin.Mbrron^-AlbejT.aiDe Slrect.C. Tilt.IlcetStrcet.&KodwelLBonjcL Street. PART FOURTH. FLORENCE TO ROME. CHAPTER VI. Lascia Passare for the Roman States. Routes to Rome. Camal-doli. Val de Cliiana. Arezzo. Cortoiia. Frontier. Money.Lake of Thrasymene. Beggars. Perugia. Foligno. Cly-tumuus. Spoleto. Terni. Val Nera. Campagna de Roma.Porta del Populo. Before leaving Florence, or if the stay there islikely to be too short, even before arriving there,the traveller should send to Torlonia, or any otherbanker to whom he is accredited at Rome, to desirethat a Lascia Passare may be forwarded to thefrontier by which he intends entering the PapalStates; if by the Sienna road, at Ponte Centino ;and if by Perugia, at the Monte Spelonca; and alsoanother to be left at the Porta del Populo on enter-ing Rome: it will save delay and examination ofluggage, particularly in Rome, where a visit to theDogana de Terra, to be searche

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