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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see spread outbefore us all the enchant-ment of an Italian shore.Villa after villa rises fromthe midst of dark greenfoliage, cool grottoes areseen laved by the bluewaters, a little whitechapel glitters on theheights, and the roadturns sharply round thethreatening angle of therock. The most cele-brated of all the villas is the Villa dEste, built by Cardinal Pompeo Gallio, who was bornin the village of Cernobbio, hard by, and was the son of a poor fisherman. Here he passedhis childhood; and in later years, when he was robed in the purple, and oppressed bythe cares which the purple brings with it, he frequently returned to these scenes, andbuilt a palace where his fathers hut once stood. Often of an evening the stately figureclad in scarlet silk would be seen pacing beneath the shade of the yew-tree alleys, followedat a respectful distance by his clerical attendants, chatting together in subdued tones ;perhaps weighty news may have arrived from Rome, from the Gcsit, or the Vatican ! But
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STREET IN TREMEZZO. 102 ITAL V.

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