Identifier: italyfromalpstom00stie (find matches)
Title: Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stieler, Karl, 1842-1885 Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Antonio, conte, 1843-1913, former owner. IU-R Paulus, Eduard, 1837-1907 Kaden, Woldemar, 1838-1907 Trollope, Frances Eleanor, d. 1913 Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892
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Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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ma confession of guilt waswrung. The Piazza of St.Mark is almost at our feet,we can hear in the eveningthe swell of the music andthe murmur of the crowdof masquers. It is a Festanight, and up there be-neath the leaden roof, aman lies brooding, whomto-morrow the executionerwill awaken. Perhaps thefriend who betrayed himis in the merry throng, and that moon whose rays glimmer through the bars, perhaps isshining on the gondola wherein his beautiful wife receives the, homage of a strangerslove. He groans, he strikes his forehead with his hand—nessun maggior dolore diericordarsi del tempo felice, nella miseria (Dante, Divina Commedia.)And that, too, was Venice! With a sensation of relief we return to the open air, to the grand Piazzetta where thesea-breeze blows, where the Zecca opens its pillared halls ; that ancient mint, which asearly as the year 1280, coined gold sequins. And what a press of gondolas ! On everyside is heard the cry La barca, Signore! Commanda la barca ? The gondolier
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