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Page ix - Thou art the garden of the world, the home Of all Art yields, and Nature can decree ; Even in thy desert, what is like to thee ? Thy very weeds are beautiful, thy waste More rich than other climes' fertility ; Thy wreck a glory, and thy ruin graced With an immaculate charm which cannot be defaced.
Page lii - L'art dans l'Italie méridionale de la fin de l'empire romain à la conquête de Charles d'Anjou, Paris, 1904...
Page 133 - The town is built in the form of an irregular oval, extending from E. to W. The circumference of its walls amounts to 2843 yds. In consequence of the prolonged peace, however, the walls had entirely lost their importance, and towards the sea they had been demolished. There are eight gates. The excavated portion embraces perhaps rather more than one-half of the town, and probably the most important part, including the Forum with the contiguous temples and public buildings, two theatres with large...
Page 200 - Fucinus, was once 37 M. in circumference and 65 ft. in depth. Owing to the want of an outlet, the level of the lake was subject to great variations which were frequently fraught with disastrous results to the inhabitants of the banks. Attempts were therefore made to drain the lake in ancient times, but this object was not finally accomplished until quite recently.
Page xxix - It cannot be too emphatically asserted that nearly all the acute diseases by which visitors to Naples are attacked are due to imprudences in diet, to neglected colds, or to excessive fatigue. Even the hardiest traveller from the N. should take the utmost care in avoiding these three provocatives of disease. On the smallest symptom of indisposition all excursions should be given up until the nervous system has recovered its usual tone. A physician should also be consulted. Malarial affections are...
Page 69 - For I am and always have been one of those natures who must be guided by reason, whatever the reason may be which upon reflection appears to me to be the best...
Page 120 - Altan' is celebrated here, in commemoration of the abolition of the feudal dominion in 1700. Every April a large fleet of boats leaves Torre del Greco for the coral-fishery off the coasts of Africa and Sicily, returning in November; the polishing of coral is the chief industry of the place. The line intersects Torre del Greco (to the right a small harbour), and then skirts the sea. To the left the monastery of Camaldoli...
Page 246 - Eera on the Lacinian Promontory, once the most revered divinity on the Gulf of Tarentum. The worship of Hera has been replaced by that of the Madonna del Capo, to whose church, close to the temple, a number of young girls from Cotrone ('le verginelle') go every Saturday in procession, with bare feet. To the SW of this promontory are three others, the Capo Cimiii, the Capo Jiizzuto, and the Capo Catlella.
Page 276 - Monrealese,' a master of considerable originality, and a follower of the Neapolitan school, to which he owes his vigorous colouring and his strongly individualised heads. Besides his works at Palermo, there is an interesting work by this master on the staircase at Monreale. Several of his monkish figures are among the finest works produced by the Italian naturalists.
Page xxxv - Selinus one step farther from the artistic isolation which presented them as almost! nsoluble problems to the original discoverers. The quaint, crude reliefs of Temple С recall by the style of their carved forms the curious poros-sculptures which have been exhumed on the Acropolis at Athens ; and doubtless their colouring was as vivid and striking as the colouring of those sculptures. The powerful reliefs from Temple F, with their representations of warriors exerting their strength to the full,...