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Italian Journeys
 Leaving Venice

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 The Picturesque, The Improbable, And The Pathetic In Ferrara.

 Through Bolgona To Genoa

 Up And Down Genoa

 By Sea From Genoa To Naples

 Certian Things In Naples

 A Day In Pompeii

 A Half-hour At Herculaneum

 Capri And Capriotes

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The Venice Grand Canal

Leaving Venice

( Originally Published 1893 )




WE did not know, when we started from home in Venice, on the 8th of November, 1864, that we had taken the longest road to Rome. We thought that of all the proverbial paths to the Eternal City that leading to Padua, and thence through Ferrara and Bologna to Florence, and so down the sea-shore from Leghorn to Civita Vecchia, was the best, the briefest, and the cheapest. Who could have dreamed that this path, so wisely and carefully chosen, would lead us to Genoa, conduct us on shipboard, toss us four dizzy days and nights, and set us down, void, battered, and bewildered, in Naples ? Luckily,

" The moving accident is not my trade,"

for there are events of this journey (now happily at an end) which, if I recounted them with unsparing sincerity, would forever deter the reader from taking any road to Rome.

Though, indeed, what is Rome, after all, when you come to it ?


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