Pencillings by the Way: Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in EuropeWillis, Nathaniel Parker
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Pencillings by the Way: Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe
Willis, Nathaniel Parker
Europe -- Description and travel
Arles--The Cathedral--Marseilles--Parting with Companions--
Pass of Ollioules--Toulon--Antibes--Coast of Mediterranean--
Forced to Return--Lazaretto--Absurd Hindrances--Fear of
Contagion--Sleep out of Doors--Lazaretto Occupations--
Delicious Sunday--New Arrivals--Companions--End of
Quarantine, 185
LETTER XXVI.
Nice--Funeral of an Arch-Duchess--Nice to Genoa--Views--
Entrance to Genoa--Genoa, 204
LETTER XXVII.
The Venus--The Fornarina--A Coquette and the Arts--A
Festa--Ascension Day--The Cascine--Madame Catalani, 211
LETTER XXVIII.
Titian's Bella--The Grand-Duchess--An Improvisatrice--Living
in Florence--Lodgings at Florence--Expense of Living, 219
LETTER XXIX.
Companions--Scenery of Romagna--Wives--Bologna, 225
LETTER XXX.
Gallery at Bologna--A Guido--Churches--Confession--Chapel--
Festa--Agreeable Manners, 231
LETTER XXXI.
Regatta--Venetian Sunset--Privileged Admission--Guillotining--
Bridge of Sighs--San Marc--The Nobleman Beggar, 238
LETTER XXXII.
An Evening in Venice--The Streets of Venice--The Rialto--
Sunset from San Marc, 246
LETTER XXXIII.
Titian's Pictures--Last Day in Venice, 251
LETTER XXXIV.
Italian Civility--Juliet's Tomb--The Palace of the
Capuletti--A Dinner, 254
LETTER XXXV.
Good and Ill-Breeding--Bridal Party, 259
LETTER XXXVI.
Manner of Living--Originals of Novels--Ill, 262
LETTER XXXVII.
The Duke of Lucca--Modena--The Palace--Bologna--Venice
Again--Its Splendor, 266
LETTER XXXVIII.
Armenian Island--Agreeable Monk--Insane Hospital--Insane
Patients--The Lagune--State Galley--Instruments of Torture, 273
LETTER XXXIX.
Venice at Evening--The Patriotism of a Noble--Church of St.
Antony--Petrarch's Cottage and Tomb--Petrarch's Room, 281
LETTER XL.
Cultivation of the Fields--The Vintage--Malibran in Gazza
Ladra--Gallery of the Lambaccari, 287
LETTER XLI.
Sienna--Catholic Devotion--Acquapendente--Lake Bolsena--
Vintage Festa--Monte Cimino--First Sight of Rome--Baccano, 292
LETTER XLII.
St. Peter's--The Apollo Belvidere--Raphael's
Transfiguration--The Pantheon--The Forum, 301
LETTER XLIII.
The Falls of Tivoli--Villa of Adrian--A Ramble by Moonlight--
The Cloaca Maxima, 307
LETTER XLIV.
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