Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . 3H1 jo ON THE LA GO DI GARDA. 29 Nature presents to them, with no ambition but to comprehend them ; with no wish but tosing them. The Lago di Garda is mentioned also in the poems of Virgil and in the DivinaCommedia. But the hands of many powerful personages were rudely stretched to graspthis jewel, and fought for its possession. The most noble families of Verona and ofVenice met here in arms ; the Kaiser and the Church, Guelph and Ghibellinecontended for it, and not seldom the history of the beautiful lake is as stormy as its. EAKE OF CAVEDINE IN THE VAL DI
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . 3H1 jo ON THE LA GO DI GARDA. 29 Nature presents to them, with no ambition but to comprehend them ; with no wish but tosing them. The Lago di Garda is mentioned also in the poems of Virgil and in the DivinaCommedia. But the hands of many powerful personages were rudely stretched to graspthis jewel, and fought for its possession. The most noble families of Verona and ofVenice met here in arms ; the Kaiser and the Church, Guelph and Ghibellinecontended for it, and not seldom the history of the beautiful lake is as stormy as its. EAKE OF CAVEDINE IN THE VAL DI SARCA. waters. The peaceful times of which Catullus sang here soon came to an end. Uponthe Monte Rocca, whose double summit rises above Garda, the ruins of a grey old towerare still to be seen, where Adelaide, the widow of Lothair, was imprisoned. Barbarossagave and Henry sold away the land ; until again new races came whose better right wasbut their better sword. But the conflict raged highest in the period during which thepower of Venice brooked no opposition ; when cities, great and small, made war upon oneanother, and when every noble was a free lance. It was in the year 1439 that the Dukeof Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti, was at war with the Venetians ;—he the more powerfulon land, they on the sea. He had occupied nearly the whole territory of Garda with hissoldiery, and was already master of the district, when the Venetians, commanded byGattamelata, conceived the bold idea of sending a portion of their fleet to the lake! The difficulty of surmount
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