Italy
Studies of Travel: Italy
PAGE AREZZO 1 CORTONA 12 PERUGIA 23 THE VOLUMNIAN TOMB 34 PRÆ-FRANCISCAN ASSISI 46 SPELLO 58 VEII 67 FIDENÆ 77 ANTEMNÆ 86 OSTIA 96 THE ALBAN MOUNT 108 CORI 123 NORBA 131 SEGNI 150
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The _arx_ of Fidenæ, now the hill of Castel Giubeleo, is not, indeed, a height like that of Tusculum or that of Cortona; but it comes nearer to them than anything to be found at...
10. Part 10But St. Michael on the slope of Tifata did carry us back in thought to a church of St. Peter seen some months before under a widely different state of outward things. We then ma...
3. Part 3The temple above ground and its appurtenances underground are the most memorable things in Præ-Franciscan Assisi; but there are other things besides, both Roman and mediæval. Th...
2. Part 2At Perugia, as becomes its history, no one class of monuments draws to itself exclusive, or even predominant, attention. Perhaps, on the whole, the municipal element is the most...
11. Part 11Beneventum, marked by Procopius as a strong city in a high place, stands low as compared with the true hill-cities. Still, as compared with Capua, it might itself pass for a hil...
1. Part 1PAGE AREZZO 1 CORTONA 12 PERUGIA 23 THE VOLUMNIAN TOMB 34 PRÆ-FRANCISCAN ASSISI 46 SPELLO 58 VEII 67 FIDENÆ 77 ANTEMNÆ 86 OSTIA 96 THE ALBAN MOUNT 108 CORI 123 NORBA 131 SEGNI 150
9. Part 9Where the præhistoric temple has thus become the cathedral church, it is not out of keeping that the wall of the præhistoric _arx_ should become the wall of the cathedral close....
5. Part 5The town of Albano itself contains a good many antiquities, the most prominent among which, that which greets the eye on the entrance from Rome, is the huge tower-like pile, so...
6. Part 6Cori and Norba are alike cities set on hills, and neither of them has any fear of being hid. But they are set on hills in different senses. Cori occupies the upper part of the s...
8. Part 8In obedience to the Itinerary, it is from Anagni that we make our way to Ferentino. And as we go from Anagni to Ferentino, we better take in the special position of Anagni on th...
12. Part 12We are now at Barium, Bari, the original Bari of the West, as distinguished from the Bari, _Bar_, _Antibaris_, _Antivari_, which repeats its name on the opposite coast. There we...
7. Part 7He who goes steadily from Rome to Brindisi, seeing what comes in his way by the easiest manner of going, will not come very much oftener on the track of Horace and his friends t...
13. Part 13_Rome_, how her local history should be studied, 67; rivalry of Veii with, 69-72; her conquest of Veii, 68, 75, 76; her origin, 70, 72, 143; Fidenæ destroyed by, 78, 85; taken b...