Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . his is a species of wealth created by industry : Genoa is notlacking in another sort of riches which have been the inheritance of the great princelyfamilies for generations, and are petrified into marble palaces, or bloom in enchantinggardens. We find such in the Via Balbi, the Strada Nuova, Strada Nuovissima, and ViaCarlo Felice, which are the resort of the fashionable world; and when we enquire whoare the occupants of the elegant equipages that roll past, every name that is told us,is, as it were, a fragment of history. There stands the Palazzo Ducale in w
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . his is a species of wealth created by industry : Genoa is notlacking in another sort of riches which have been the inheritance of the great princelyfamilies for generations, and are petrified into marble palaces, or bloom in enchantinggardens. We find such in the Via Balbi, the Strada Nuova, Strada Nuovissima, and ViaCarlo Felice, which are the resort of the fashionable world; and when we enquire whoare the occupants of the elegant equipages that roll past, every name that is told us,is, as it were, a fragment of history. There stands the Palazzo Ducale in which theDoge once dwelt; the magnificent Palazzo del Municipio formerly belonged to theDorias ; then come the Spinola, Pallavicini, Durazzo, Balbi,—one more splendid than theother. In these Genoese palaces the court-yards are usually very handsome; they areinvariably high above the level of the streets, and are approached by a broad flight ofmarble steps. The court-yard is surrounded by a colonnade, also of white marble, is hand-. VIA SAN LUCA, GENOA. OF THE GENOA. 123
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