Studies of Travel: ItalyFreeman, Edward A. (Edward Augustus)
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Studies of Travel: Italy
Freeman, Edward A. (Edward Augustus)
Italy -- Description and travel
only the mighty King of Poland, but Grand-Duke of Lithuania, Russia,
Prussia, Mazovia, and Samogitia. Yet we might have lighted on Slavonic
associations earlier on the road. There is a strange record of a
Bulgarian settlement in the parts of Beneventum; but that would take us
yet further afield: it was before Bulgarians became Slavonic. But what
are we to say to the Samnite _Schiavia_ which sheltered Anselm?
The journey is done--
"Brundisium longæ finis cartæque viæque."
Otranto lies yet further; but Otranto, yet more notably than Bari,
comes within the Venetian _Notitia_. So does Brundisium, city of the
stag's horn, of the haven so aptly called, if we only knew in what
tongue it is that _Brentesium_ has that meaning. But we are tempted
to regret that Brindisi and not Otranto is the point for which Hadria
has to be crossed. Brindisi has no moral claim. We cannot look thence,
as we can from Otranto, upon the mountains of still enslaved Epeiros;
no one is tempted even to dream that he looks on free Corfu or on the
lesser satellite that stands in front as its outpost.
INDEX.
A
_Alatri_, its alliance with Rome, 206; its special interest
to be found in its primæval remains, 207; not named in the
Itineraries, _ib._; its walls, 209, 212 _et seq._; position
of the _arx_, 210, 213; its cathedral church on the site of
the primæval temple, 211, 212, 219; gateway of the _arx_,
215; contrasted with Mykênê, 216; mediæval remains at,
298; church of Sta. Maria Maggiore at, _ib._; its domestic
architecture, _ib._
_Alba_, its destruction, 110, 112, 120; use of the name,
_ib._; Roman villas at, 111, 112; analogy of its relation to
Albano with that of Spalato and Salona, 112. See _Albano_.
_Alban Lake_, the, 110, 114, 119, 165
_Alban Mount_, the, 110, 119, 165; remains of temple of
Jupiter Latiaris on, 111, 122, 142
_Albania_, use of the name, 108, 109
_Albano_ (Alba), imperial dwelling-place, 112; its relation
to Alba contrasted with that of Spalato and Salona, _ib._;
tomb of Pompeius at, 113; so-called tomb of Aruns at, _ib._
_Ἀλβανοί_, use of the name, 109, 110, 222
_Albanum_. See _Albano_.
_Alexander III._, Pope, consecrated at Ninfa, 147
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