Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . the living rock, its massive stone houses, its narrow, steep, andwinding streets defended by long flights of steps, and great arches of solid masonry. Onthis occasion every window became a loop-hole ; children hurled down showers of stones,and the heavy Roman tiles, women poured hot oil on to the heads of the advancingsoldiers ; it was a conflict without a parallel, obstinate, unchristian, blind, and pitiless !House after house had to be stormed singly. In their chambers, in their beds, beforethe pictures of their saints, men and women were seized by the inf
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . the living rock, its massive stone houses, its narrow, steep, andwinding streets defended by long flights of steps, and great arches of solid masonry. Onthis occasion every window became a loop-hole ; children hurled down showers of stones,and the heavy Roman tiles, women poured hot oil on to the heads of the advancingsoldiers ; it was a conflict without a parallel, obstinate, unchristian, blind, and pitiless !House after house had to be stormed singly. In their chambers, in their beds, beforethe pictures of their saints, men and women were seized by the infuriated Swiss, andbutchered. And then, once more, Perugia lay gagged and bound at the feet of the PopeKing, and—Colonel Schmidt was made a General! THE LAKE OE TJIRASYMENE. 197 But ihc blood of those so ruthlessly slain, cried aloud to Heaven, and only a few-years had passed before the States of the Church broke up and crumbled to pieces, likean edifice of rotten timber. The stern fortress which was built to terrorize and oppress. INTERIOR OE AN ETRUSCAN TOMB NEAR PERUGIA. the city by the fierce Pierluigi, son of Pope Paul the Third, is levelled to the earth ; andon its site is a charming- promenade planted with flowers, and commanding a splendidview over the mighty range of mountains and the broad valley of the Tiber to Assisi,which sits aloft upon a buttress of the great hills. ###### 198 ITALY. Cast away everything, and become a beggar, spake Bouddha Sakya Muni centuriesbefore the birth of Christ. A powerful Indian King took off the golden diadem from hisbrow, went out into the wilderness, and preached to the poor lessons of love and long-suffering. Cast away everything, and become a beggar ! These words, which foundan echo in the profoundest depths of the peoples nature, seized powerfully upon the East,and have kept firm hold on it even to the present day. And the same words were uttered many centuries later from the innermost heart ofa young man in the distant western wo
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