"A poetical, romantic, and charmingly written book, which will be popular with all who love their Italy."--DOUGLAS SLADEN in _Literary World_. "Able, eloquent, and interesting."--_Queen._ Transcriber's Notes: * Inconsistency in hyphenation is as in the original. * Three short footnotes have been moved into the main text, rendered as [Footnote: ...] * The layout of the advertising material has been standardised somewhat, and dashes inserted consistently between reviews and their source. (In most but not all cases, a dash was present if the source was on the same line, but not if on a different line. This distinction is impossible to preserve in an e-text.) * Two misprinted accents on the French have been moved onto the correct letter. * Page 161: the first word on the page has been changed from "or" to "for" (there is a gap, and this best fits the context). * Page 195: the name "Bevensey" has been changed to "Pevensey" to match other occurrences in the book. * Page 201, first full paragraph: The comma after "masters" is possibly incorrect (a period or semi-colon would be more grammatically correct) but the original has been retained. * Page 354: in the paragraph beginning "In that event", a colon after said has been changed to a semi-colon, in accordance with normal practice and all other occurrences in the book. * Page 376: a reference to "De Hausée" has been changed to "de Hausée" to match every other occurrence.