Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . ON THE MARBLE QUARRIES NEAR CARRARA. OF THE MONKS PLAYING BOWLS. IN EMILIA. N no country is travelling so rich in delightful objects as in Italy, but in no countryare the limits of time and space more oppressively felt. In most other lands theintermediate spaces between great cities or famous points are comparativelydevoid of attraction, but here almost every tiny town that we pass on our wayto the great centres is important, either historically or picturesquely. Art has everywherescattered pearls of price ; the number of petty potentates who held
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . ON THE MARBLE QUARRIES NEAR CARRARA. OF THE MONKS PLAYING BOWLS. IN EMILIA. N no country is travelling so rich in delightful objects as in Italy, but in no countryare the limits of time and space more oppressively felt. In most other lands theintermediate spaces between great cities or famous points are comparativelydevoid of attraction, but here almost every tiny town that we pass on our wayto the great centres is important, either historically or picturesquely. Art has everywherescattered pearls of price ; the number of petty potentates who held their courts in thevarious subdivisions of Italy, created a hundred centres of interest for the traveller. Onewould desire to see everything, and yet it is impossible to halt everywhere ! Withoutmuch sacrifice of ones inclinations, and without neglecting a thousand beauties, it is abso-lutely impossible to travel through Italy and to describe it. The district we are now hastening through is the ancient Emilia; the district of theRomagna, and of the
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