Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . FRUIT-SELLERS IN TRENT. comes to them from the North. But this latter view appears to have acquired strengthlatterly. My volunteer guide assured me that it was worth while to pause a moment in frontof the Palazzo Galasso, since it was one of the finest private buildings that Trent could 24 ITAL Y. boast of. Who built it ? asked I, in astonishment. George Fugger of Augsburg,was the answer. After Fugger, it came into the hands of the Counts Thun and Gallas,until at last the Zambelli became the proprietors of it. We passed on, crossing the Cathedral Square. The
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . FRUIT-SELLERS IN TRENT. comes to them from the North. But this latter view appears to have acquired strengthlatterly. My volunteer guide assured me that it was worth while to pause a moment in frontof the Palazzo Galasso, since it was one of the finest private buildings that Trent could 24 ITAL Y. boast of. Who built it ? asked I, in astonishment. George Fugger of Augsburg,was the answer. After Fugger, it came into the hands of the Counts Thun and Gallas,until at last the Zambelli became the proprietors of it. We passed on, crossing the Cathedral Square. The heavens were gradually deckingthemselves with sparkling stars ; the water in the great marble fountain standing in themiddle of the piazza, murmured and plashed over the god Neptune with his trident and. PEASANT WOMAN FROM TKE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF TRENT. sirens. In the suburb on the other side of the Adige we saw the dark cypresses thatsurround the old garden of the Franciscan monastery. Trent, tco, has its Saints, saidmy companion, and one of them may be counted amongst the youngest in thecalendar, for it was a child barely two years old, named Simon, whom the Pope canonisedto make amends for his sufferings. People will still tell you that he was stolen andtortured by the Jews. The corpse, which is buried in San Pietro, was fished out of astream ; and thirty-nine inhabitants of the old Ghetto (Jews quarter) who were accused ofhaving been accessory to the childs murder, were punished with death. The increase in material prosperity which has come to the Agro Trentino of recenttimes has been essentially due to the railway ; but the direction of its commerce is towards IN THE TRENTINO. 25 Germany. There, and not in the sunny South, Trent lays up her treasures of fruit, andsilk, and wine, and
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