Southern Italy and Sicily: With Excursions to Malta, Sardinia, Tunis, and Corfu; Handbook for Travellers |
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Page ix - And even since, and now, fair Italy ! 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 can not be defaced.
Page iv - God send thee good passage, And specially let this be thy prayere, Unto them all that thee will read or hear, Where thou art wrong, after their help to call, Thee to correct in any part or all.
Page 67 - Caracalla in a sadly mutilated condition. The restoration of the group was superintended by Michael Angelo. The two sons of Antiope, Amphion and Zethus, avenge the wrongs of their mother by binding Dirce, who had treated her with the greatest cruelty for many years, to the horns of a wild bull. Antiope in the background exhorts them to forgiveness. The boldness and life of the group, originally hewn out of a single block of marble, is unrivalled in any other work of the same character (comp.
Page 238 - Norman sovereigns, who often resided here, has been restored by Prince Doria as a chateau. Here, in 1059, Pope Nicholas II. invested Robert Guiscard with the duchies of Apulia and Calabria. The "Cathedral of 1155 (since rebuilt), was almost destroyed by the earthquake. The townhall contains a fine Roman sarcophagus. The conspicuous Monte Vulture...
Page 35 - Byzantine supremacy, and under its doge or 'duca' maintained its independence against the Lombard princes, until after a long siege in 1130 it at length succumbed to the Normans under Roger. Frederick II. founded the university (1224), but seldom made Naples his residence. It was constituted the capital of the kingdom by Charles I. of Anjou (1265-85) and was greatly extended by subsequent princes, especially by Ferdinand I.
Page 153 - Eutychi; closed), consisting of two distinct houses, but connected. Beyond the Corinthian atrium are the tablinum and a garden with lararium. Fine frescoes in the room to the right of the tablinum: to the left, Birth of Adonis; on the entrance-wall, Minos and Scylla; in an apartment to the left of the garden, Apollo and Daphne. To the right of the atrium is a large peristyle, adorned with paintings all round. On the wall to the left of the entrance is the Venus Pompeiana.
Page 157 - Eighteen bodies of women and children, who had provided themselves with food, and sought protection in this vault against the eruption, were found here. But impalpable ashes penetrated through the openings into the interior, and too late the ill-fated party endeavoured to escape. They were found with their heads wrapped up, half buried by the ashes. The probable proprietor of the house was found near the garden-door (now walled up}, with the key in his hand ; beside him was a slave with money and...
Page 278 - 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.