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Chapter 16: TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
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The author offers a sequence of impressionistic essays and travel sketches that record visits to Rome, Naples, Amalfi, Capri, Ischia, Assisi, Venice and other Italian locales, blending art criticism, personal recollection, and landscape description. Observations range from modern sculpture and Vatican galleries to street festivals, villa gardens, coastal seas, ancient ruins, and monastic shrines, illuminated by photographic plates and poetic reflections. Social life and artistic communities appear alongside meditations on sacred art, sunset skies, and the evocative power of place, while chapters alternate between specific site studies and lyrical ruminations that aim to capture the visual and emotional atmosphere of Italy.


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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

The original language, spelling and punctuation have been preserved, except where noted.

The illustrations were moved to the paragraph they refer to. The List of Illustrations was changed accordingly.

Page xii: Vittoria Colonna, Galleria Buonarotti, Florence

Page 6: artistic centre of the ninteenth century and

Page 19: on the wall of the casa in the Via delle Quattre Fontane

page 26: the Palazzo Sentoriale and the Palazzo dei Conservatore.

page 27: the Stanza della Incendio and the Sala di Constantino.

page 32: winds on the Pont San Angelo, and in the vast

page 32: the Music Nazionale—is the group of “Pluto

page 55: during hs stay in Rome are ‘St. Elizabeth of

page 72: The Via delle Quatre Fontane, on which the

page 138: given under the auspices of the Societa Archeologica,

page 148: gentilinomo, who is gorgeously arrayed in knee

page 161: Jacomletti, and there is also a kneeling statue

page 163: and the Via dell Quattro Fontane. The

page 163: for living purposes. The portere, the guards,

page 170: and in the Vedder villa, Torre Quatro Venti

page 171: the American wife of Caviliere Cortesi, an

page 178: Peruzzi, and Annibale Caracci. Raphael is

page 185: that includes the “Ludovisi Mars;” Hercules,”

page 200: he may rest, mens conscia recta!

page 205: whose grand Roman palazzo is in the Boca di

page 244: Forum, succeding Lanciani—believe that some

page 272: Mignano (Ginodone Trieramosca) and also to

page 272: are a series of fresco paintings by Luca Gindano,

page 276: to be a “Monumento Nazionali,” and it is now

page 286: in the “Inferno.” The Colonna and the Orsino

page 286: look down from Castel Gondolfo on the gloomy,

page 287: Marino, Castel Gondolfo, and Frascati, with

page 295: for the country they left Naples for Pietzalba

page 295: Musefico, il Givoio, and il Minturo. It was an

page 297: Per te narrar tre quante dubbie voglie,

page 297: Fra quanti aspri martir, degliosa io vivo!

page 304: San Mano that had formerly been its property.

page 305: world’s sun; and not to add light to mio vel solo,

page 213: The Villa Falconicri, in Frascati, which was

page 234: Benvenuto Cellini at the Castel Sant Angelo;

page 237: of the street scenes of Naples; Camprani and

page 244: equestrian statue of Bulbi, in the Naples Museum,

page 260: The cathedral at Revello has traces of the

page 260: of the Palazzo Rufelo might enchant Hafiz himself.

page 272: by Mazzarappi and Marco da Siena. Nothing

page 274: Terre di Lavorno region:—

page 332: “Bene scripsisti de me, Thoma; quam ergo mercedem recipris?

page 380: Bonaventuri built over it, is preserved in this

page 385: the Palazzo Rospigliosa in Rome.

page 399: Anopeste, elected by the tribunal of commonalty,

page 400: mural work by Battesta Franco and De Moro.

page 400: One enters the Porta delta Carta, which

page 405: Peter, Maucis, and Antoninus are commending

page 426: Saricinesco, in the region of Tivoli, was made

page 436: too, in other leading men. Zurati, the

page 452: in Europe. That of the Annunziati, the

page 461: Annunziati Cathedral, Genoa, 452.

page 462: Camprani, 237.

page 463: del Vall, Cardinal Merry, 146-149, 435.

page 466: Ossi, Professor Dall, opinion of, 244.

page 467: Quatre Fontane, Via delle, 72.

page 467: Revello, Cathedral at, 260.

page 470: Villa Falconicri, 213.

On page 235: “Da Scala d'Oro” should be “La Scala d'Oro” or “Madonna della Scala d'Oro”.