CHAPTER XVIII

SOUTHERN SHORES

Melancholy Ravenna—Early Byzantine architecture—Forests of stone-pine—Smiles and tears—The need of a little misfortune—Monte Gargano—Millions of Spanish merinos—Primæval forest—A forest miracle—Church of the Apparition of St. Michael—Other apparitions of the Archangel—The revelation to St. Aubert—The great round church—Order of the Knights of St. Michael—A “maiden” fortress of France pp. 354-365

INDEX pp. 366-372

ILLUSTRATIONS

VENICE: THE GRAND CANAL _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE ST. BENEDICT 24 ST. GREGORY 44 ROME: THE PANTHEON 62 PIUS IX 82 PIUS IX IN LATER LIFE 106 PIUS VII 132 QUEEN JOAN OF NAPLES 200 CLEMENT VI 260 NAPLES: CASTEL DELL’UOVO 264 THE TOMB OF QUEEN JOAN 274 JOACHIM MURAT, KING OF NAPLES 288 CAROLINE BUONAPARTE, QUEEN OF NAPLES 310 LIVORNO 332 TORCELLO: THE CATHEDRAL AND THE CHURCH OF ST. FOSCA 344 RAVENNA 354

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