The Road in Tuscany, Vol. 1 of 2 PDF Download

Author: Maurice Hewlett
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330745489
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Languages : en
Pages : 422

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Excerpt from The Road in Tuscany, Vol. 1 of 2: A Commentary I never heard of a guide-book to Italy devised upon such a plan. Herr Baedeker loves the train; Mr. Murray, disembodied from the fetters of time and space, seems to flit from museum to museum, no eye remarking his means of locomotion; the late Professor Ruskin seldom left the pulpit; the late Mr. Grant Allen never left the schoolroom. You must, indeed, go back to the old road-books of our grandfathers' day, which made the mile stones their first object of interest, the turnpikes their second, the inns their third, and crowded into the last column their references to Livy, Politian, Virgil, Catullus, Dante, and Slawken bergius, their lapidary lore, temples of Vesta, and battlefields of Hannibal; and in the notes might or might not tell you that Raphael's Saz'm' Ce ez'lz'a was in the gallery of Bologna, and Giulio Romano's War of Me Giants at Mantua remark ably fine. I have abandoned the mile-stones, the turnpikes; but I have never lain at a good inn without saying so, and as for Dante and Virgil, I Should like to know the man who could travel any part of Italy north of the Tiber and keep them out of the country; rather, I had better'say, I should not like to know him at all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.