Transcribed from the 1913 Chapman & Hall, Ltd. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org AMERICAN NOTES FOR GENERAL CIRCULATION {1} AND PICTURES FROM ITALY BY CHARLES DICKENS * * * * * WITH 8 ILLUSTRATIONS BY MARCUS STONE, R.A. * * * * * LONDON CHAPMAN & HALL, LTD. 1913 * * * * * CONTENTS The Reader’s Passport 215 Going through France 218 Lyons, the Rhone, and the Goblin of Avignon 225 Avignon to Genoa 233 Genoa and its Neighbourhood 238 To Parma, Modena, and Bologna 264 Through Bologna and Ferrara 272 An Italian Dream 277 By Verona, Mantua, and Milan, across the Pass of the Simplon 284 into Switzerland To Rome by Pisa and Siena 297 Rome 308 A Rapid Diorama 345 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS CIVIL AND MILITARY _Marcus Stone_, _R.A._ 218 ITALIAN PEASANTS ,, ,, ,, 250 THE CHIFFONIER ,, ,, ,, 294 IN THE CATACOMBS ,, ,, ,, 326 THE READER’S PASSPORT IF the readers of this volume will be so kind as to take their credentials for the different places which are the subject of its author’s reminiscences, from the Author himself, perhaps they may visit them, in fancy, the more agreeably, and with a better understanding of what they are to expect. Many books have been written upon Italy, affording many means of studying the history of that interesting country, and the innumerable associations entwined about it. I make but little reference to that stock of information; not at all regarding it as a necessary consequence of my having had recourse to the storehouse for my own benefit, that I should reproduce its easily accessible contents before the eyes of my readers.