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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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THE LEANING TOWERS IN BOLOGNA. IN EMILIA. 153 salient memories of the city which for centuries led so stormy an existence, and thenagain for centuries so stagnant and solitary a one! The foundation of her politicalimportance and prosperity was the harbour which Augustus caused to be constructed for -r-
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TOMB OF THEODORIC, RAVENNA. his fleet close to Ravenna. This prosperity decayed and fell with the decay and fall ofthe Roman Empire; but Ravenna has another indestructible importance which is assuredto her as long as her stones stand one upon the other : she is, namely, the treasury andmetropolis of all Europe for the study of early Christian art. Almost everywhere elsethe works produced by the painter and sculptor and architect in the fifth and sixth cen- x 154 ITALY. turies of the Christian Era have been hopelessly damaged or ruthlessly destroyed by thevandalism of succeeding generations ; a basilica such as the church of San? Apollinare inClassc, is almost unique amongst the monuments of the world. It is supposed to standupon the site of an ancient temple of Apollo ; the saint to whom it is dedicated is said tohave suffered martyrdom in the reign of the Emperor Vespasian. The church standsabout an hours drive away from the town, and the road to it lies, for some portion of it,close

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