Category: Travel Writing
Verona: Campanile of the Palazzo dei Signori--Sta. Anastasia--Monuments--Piazza dell’ Erbe--The Duomo--The Baptistery--Sta. Maria l’Antica--Cemetery and Palace of the Scaligers--Domestic Architecture--Piazza di Brà--The Austrians--Ponte di Castel-Vecchio--San Zenone--San Fermo...
Verona: Campanile of the Palazzo dei Signori--Sta. Anastasia--Monuments--Piazza dell’ Erbe--The Duomo--The Baptistery--Sta. Maria l’Antica--Cemetery and Palace of the Scaligers-...
5. CHAPTER VII.6. CHAPTER VIII.Padua and Venice Railway--Venice: Piazza and Church of S. Mark--Torcello--The Lagoon--Murano--Sta. Maria dei Frari--SS. Giovanni e Paolo--Sta. Maria dell’ Orto--Other Churches--...
7. CHAPTER IX.8. Chapter X.9. CHAPTER XI.Drive from Padua to Ferrara--Monselice--Rovigo--Ferrara: Cathedral--Castle--Gallery--Road to Bologna--Altedo--Bologna: Cathedral--San Petronio--San Domenico--San Giacomo--Sta. M...
10. CHAPTER XII.11. CHAPTER XIII.12. CHAPTER XIV.13. CHAPTER I.An architectural tour in Italy seems to afford about as much prospect of pleasure and information combined as any which it is possible for an English student to take. He may see...
14. CHAPTER II.“For pallid autumn once again Hath swell’d each torrent of the hill; Her clouds collect, her shadows sail, And watery winds that sweep the vale Grow loud and louder still.” _Cam...
15. CHAPTER III.The storm of the evening gave no kind augury of sunshine on the morrow, and with rather anxious thoughts we listened as it roared among the mountains which overhung our hostelry...
16. CHAPTER IV.“But now ‘tis pass’d, That turbulent chaos; and the promised land Lies at my feet in all its loveliness! To him who starts up from a terrible dream, And lo, the sun is shining a...
17. CHAPTER V.“Am I in Italy? Is this the Mincius? Are those the distant turrets of Verona? And shall I sup where Juliet at the masque Saw her loved Montague, and now sleeps by him?” _Rogers._
18. CHAPTER VI.Verona: Campanile of the Palazzo dei Signori--Sta. Anastasia--Monuments--Piazza dell’ Erbe--The Duomo--The Baptistery--Sta. Maria l’Antica--Cemetery and Palace of the Scaligers-...
19. CHAPTER VII.Many of the villages near Verona are remarkable for the remains of castles of the middle ages. I have never, however, been able to find time for the examination of any of them,...
20. CHAPTER VIII.Padua and Venice Railway--Venice: Piazza and Church of S. Mark--Torcello--The Lagoon--Murano--Sta. Maria dei Frari--SS. Giovanni e Paolo--Sta. Maria dell’ Orto--Other Churches--...
21. xx. He gives a list of no less than one hundred and sixty-nine panels orfigures, in a considerable number of which the accompanying inscriptions are in Greek characters. The Pala was “restored” in the thirteenth century and again in the fourteenth,...
22. CHAPTER IX.To those who wish to find new roads to old haunts let me recommend the road to Venice described in this chapter. A more interesting way for any one who has already travelled thr...
23. CHAPTER X.“With all its sinful doings, I must say That Italy’s a pleasant place to me, Who love to see the sun shine every day, And vines (not nail’d to walls) from tree to tree Festoon’d...
24. CHAPTER XI.Drive from Padua to Ferrara--Monselice--Rovigo--Ferrara: Cathedral--Castle--Gallery--Road to Bologna--Altedo--Bologna: Cathedral--San Petronio--San Domenico--San Giacomo--Sta. M...
25. CHAPTER XII.Milan is better known to the generality of English travellers than, perhaps, any other city south of the Alps; and its older portions afford a fair idea of some of the most sali...
26. CHAPTER XIII.There was great delay in leaving Como; the passport officer was asleep, and no one dared to awaken him for our convenience; at last we determined to start, and went off to the p...
27. CHAPTER XIV.I propose in this chapter to sum up, as shortly as I can, the information which I have gathered in the course of my tours in the North of Italy, on the subject of mediæval art....