Category: Travel Writing
In a chapter upon “Literary Residences,” among _The Curiosities of Literature_, Isaac D’Israeli said: “No foreigners, men of letters, lovers of the arts, or even princes, would pass through Antwerp without visiting the House of Rubens, to witness the animated residence of geni...
Mr. Horatio F. Brown and Mr. Howells both quote a letter, written in Latin, by Petrarch to his friend Pietro Bolognese, in which he describes a famous festival held in the Piazz...
3. Part 3Of the other later-day historians of Venice, it may be stated that Dr. Robertson, the annalist of Sarpi and of St. Mark’s, lives in the Casa S. Leonardo, on the Rio S. Maria del...
1. Part 1In a chapter upon “Literary Residences,” among _The Curiosities of Literature_, Isaac D’Israeli said: “No foreigners, men of letters, lovers of the arts, or even princes, would...
4. Part 4Campo or Campiello: Bartolommeo, S., 35, 40, 43. Calcina, della, 36. Canova, 43. Carmine, del, 7, 8. Fosca, 26. Incurabili, 37. Manin, 22-23. Maurizio, S., 42. Moisè, S., 36, 51...