. Italian journeys / by Howells ; with one hundred and three illustrations by Joseph •3 ; The Cathedral, Trieste 5talia n 3 o u c ne * a indeed, are bi-lingual, and very many tri-lingual, witliont Triestecounting French, which is understood and spoken frominfancy. Italian, German, and Greek are written, but theSlavonic little, this having remained in the condition of avulgar tongue. But it would be idle to distinguish thepopulation ac-cording to lan-guage, for theson adopts alanguage dif-ferent from thefathers, andnow prefers onelanguage andnow another;the women in-c 1 ine to th
. Italian journeys / by Howells ; with one hundred and three illustrations by Joseph •3 ; The Cathedral, Trieste 5talia n 3 o u c ne * a indeed, are bi-lingual, and very many tri-lingual, witliont Triestecounting French, which is understood and spoken frominfancy. Italian, German, and Greek are written, but theSlavonic little, this having remained in the condition of avulgar tongue. But it would be idle to distinguish thepopulation ac-cording to lan-guage, for theson adopts alanguage dif-ferent from thefathers, andnow prefers onelanguage andnow another;the women in-c 1 ine to theItalian; butthose of theupper classprefer nowGerman, nowFrench, nowEnglish, as,from one de-cade to an-other, affairs,fashions, andfancies change. This in the salons; in the squares and streets, the Vene-tian dialect is heard. And with the introduction of the Venetian dialect,Venetian discontent seems also to have crept in, and Ionce heard a Triestine declaim against the Imperialgovernment quite in the manner of Venice. It struck methat this desire for union with Italy, which he declared 231. A Hilly Street, Triest2 Italian 3ourne$s Trieste prevalent in Trieste must be of very recent growth, sinceeven so late as 1848, Trieste had refused to join Venice inthe expulsion of the Austrians. Indeed, the Triestineshave fought the Venetians from the first; they stole theBrides of Venice in one of their piratical cruises in thelagoons ; gave aid and comfort to those enemies of Venice,the Visconti, the Carraras, and the Genoese; revoltedfrom St. Mark whenever subjected to his banner, andfinally, rather than remain under his sway, gave themselvesnve centuries ago to Austria. The objects of interest at Trieste are not many. Thereare remains of an attributive temple of Jupiter under theDuomo, and there is near at hand the Museum of ClassicalAntiquities founded in honour of Winckelmann, murderedat Trieste by Ancangeli, who had seen the medals bestowedon the antiquary by Maria Theresa and b
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