Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . SHORES OF LA GO FUCINO TO THE PONTINE MARSHES. 307 gracefully raised to support the brimming vessel, or else with both arms folded on theample bosom, you think, as they move past you with slow majestic gait, that they are. CAPISTRELLO, IN THE VALLEY OF THE LIRIS. daughters of some ancient king, carrying up water to the kingly halls as kings daughtersare said to have done in old legends. Amidst all the cheerfulness of this little mountain population, you can trace a certaindefiant scornfulness,—well visible in a tiny line between the handsome black eyebrows,w
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . SHORES OF LA GO FUCINO TO THE PONTINE MARSHES. 307 gracefully raised to support the brimming vessel, or else with both arms folded on theample bosom, you think, as they move past you with slow majestic gait, that they are. CAPISTRELLO, IN THE VALLEY OF THE LIRIS. daughters of some ancient king, carrying up water to the kingly halls as kings daughtersare said to have done in old legends. Amidst all the cheerfulness of this little mountain population, you can trace a certaindefiant scornfulness,—well visible in a tiny line between the handsome black eyebrows,which their race and their history has stamped upon them. Their history is a bloody one. R r 2 3o8 ITAL V. What the town suffered in classic times, during the civil wars of Marius and Sylla, mayhave been entirely buried in oblivion, since those sufferings were followed by a longperiod of rest. But the traces stamped on it by the arms of Germans, Frenchmen, andSpaniards, from the times of the Hohenstaufens down to the great French Revolution, arestill distinctly visible. In these days no one makes war upon Alatri more. The ancient Porta Bellona isnow called Porta San Pietro. A few poets and painters climb up hither from time totime, search after the
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