Italian Journeys
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Excerpt from Italian JourneysIn the American woods, very likely, whispering some dreamy, credulous youth, telling him charming fables of its locus, and proposing to itself to abandon him as soon as he sets foot upon its native ground. You see, though I cared little about Tasso, and nothing about his prison, I was heavily disappointed in not being able to believe in it, and felt somehow that I had been awakened from a cherished dream.But I have no right to cast the unbroken shadow of my skepticism upon the reader, and so I tell him a story about Ferrara which I actually believe. He must know th...
Chapters (84)(click to expand)
- ITALIAN JOURNEYS
- 1867 and 1895
- THE ROAD TO ROME FROM VENICE.
- I.—LEAVING VENICE.
- II.—FROM PADUA TO FERRARA.
- III.—THE PICTURESQUE, THE IMPROBABLE, AND THE PATHETIC IN FERRARA.
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- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- IV.—THROUGH BOLOGNA TO GENOA.
- I.
- II.
- V.—UP AND DOWN GENOA.
- VI.—BY SEA FROM GENOA TO NAPLES.
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- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VII.—CERTAIN THINGS IN NAPLES.
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- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- VIII.—A DAY IN POMPEII.
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- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- IX.—A HALF-HOUR AT HERCULANEUM.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- X.—CAPRI AND CAPRIOTES.
- I.
- II.
- XI.—THE PROTESTANT RAGGED SCHOOLS AT NAPLES.
- XII.—BETWEEN ROME AND NAPLES.
- XIII.—ROMAN PEARLS.
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- III.
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- VIII.
- IX.
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- XII.
- XIII.
- FORZA MAGGIORE.
- AT PADUA
- I.
- II.
- III.
- A PILGRIMAGE TO PETRARCH'S HOUSE AT ARQUÀ.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- A VISIT TO THE CIMBRI.
- MINOR TRAVELS.
- I.—PISA.
- II.—THE FERRARA ROAD.
- III.—TRIESTE.
- IV.—BASSANO.
- V.—POSSAGNO, CANOVA'S BIRTHPLACE.
- VI.—COMO.
- STOPPING AT VICENZA, VERONA, AND PARMA.
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- II.
- III.
- DUCAL MANTUA.
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