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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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ons but the liberty of nations was ruthlessly condemned. Thegloomy impression made by these reminiscences, is increased by the heavy and unhealthyatmosphere of the surrounding marshes, whose exhalations become the terrible allies ofthe garrison against a besieging—especially a foreign—foe. But we soon forget such dispiriting sensations, when, turning our backs on Mantuathe fortress, we enter Mantua the town, and pass through her streets before palaces andtheatres, and masterpieces of another time, that are almost unequalled. Here we are ledonward by the creative hand of Art instead of the destructive hand of War. The PiazzaSan Pietro may be looked on as the principal point in the city, containing as it does theDuomo, and the old Palazzo Ducale. From hence, as far as the Via della Croce Verdeand the Teatro Sociale, flows the thickest traffic ; and the original and singular aspect ofthe scene is enhanced by the fact that one of those lakes, formed by the broadening out of MANTUA. 85
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RIFLEMEN WAITING FOR A TRAIN. the Mincio, reaches nearly to the Piazza, and is crossed by a single bridge leading to theLunetta. Giulio Romano is the presiding genius in the old Castle of the Dukes of Mantua. S6 ITALY. He completed the artistic significance of Bonaccoltis building, and has made its internalwalls renowned for all time by his Trojan frescoes. The Palazzo del Te is still richer inworks of this master; it contains eight rooms, adorned by his hand, inexhaustible infulness of details, and incomparable for grace as well as grandeur. The former quality isespecially remarkable in the so-called Hall of Psyche, the second in the Sala dei Giganti,or Hall of Giants, where the heaven-storming Titans appear almost terrible in theirmight. The enormous power of growth and expansion which that period (the Renaissance)possessed is best evidenced by the choice of artistic subjects which were taken by pre-ference from the antique world of gods and goddesses. Every little Prince in duodeci

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