. En route; a descriptive automobile tour through nine countries & over nineteen great passes of Europe . road is cut in a series of tunnelsthrough the rock only to emerge from the cool shadeinto the dazzlino: sunshine. A little way after passing through Dorio, uponthe opposite side of the lake, is faintly seen thesmall promontory of Musso, connected so closelywith the ODce dreaded name of Giacomo de Medici;or II Medeghino as he was better known, who,as Symons says : Turned the lovely lake into apirates stronghold, and stained its clear waterswith the slaughter of conflicting navies. Hishistor
. En route; a descriptive automobile tour through nine countries & over nineteen great passes of Europe . road is cut in a series of tunnelsthrough the rock only to emerge from the cool shadeinto the dazzlino: sunshine. A little way after passing through Dorio, uponthe opposite side of the lake, is faintly seen thesmall promontory of Musso, connected so closelywith the ODce dreaded name of Giacomo de Medici;or II Medeghino as he was better known, who,as Symons says : Turned the lovely lake into apirates stronghold, and stained its clear waterswith the slaughter of conflicting navies. Hishistory is interesting as typical of Italy in theMiddle Ages. The north end of Lake Como becomes granderthe nearer one gets to it. The mountains close inand encircle the lake like a great basin opening atone place to admit the road into the Val Tellina. The Val Tellina is perhaps the most beautiful andunfortunate of valleys ; pillaged ahke by friend andfoe, by church and state, ravaged by every war forcenturies, and the scene of that fearful massacre ofJuly 20, 1620, an event, says Brockedon, which60 . ^f^.
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