Seeing Europe with Famous Authors

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Editor

Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919

Title

Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy, Sicily, and Greece, Part Two

Credits

Produced by Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

DG: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Italy, Vatican City, Malta

Subject

Sicily (Italy) -- Description and travel

Category

Text

eBook-No.

19061

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19061

Release Date

August 16, 2006

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.SEEING EUROPE
2. 2.AUTHORS — SELECTED AND EDITED — WITH — INTRODUCTIONS, ETC. — BY
3. 3.FRANCIS W. HALSEY — IN TEN — VOLUMES — ILLUSTRATED — Vol. VIII — ITALY, SICILY, AND GREECE — Part Two
4. 4.CONTENTS OF VOLUME VIII — Italy, Sicily, and Greece—Part Two
5. 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
6. 6.THREE FAMOUS CITIES — IN THE STREETS OF GENOA [1] — BY CHARLES DICKENS — MILAN CATHEDRAL [2] — BY HIPPOLYTE ADOLPHE TAINE — PISA'S FOUR GLORIES [4] — BY HIPPOLYTE ADOLPHE TAINE — THE WALLS AND "SKYSCRAPERS" OF PISA [5] — BY JANET ROSS AND NELLY ERICHSON
7. 7.NAPLES AND ITS ENVIRONS — IN AND ABOUT THE CITY [6] — BY CHARLES DICKENS — THE TOMB OF VIRGIL [7] — BY AUGUSTUS J. C. HARE — TWO ASCENTS OF VESUVIUS [8] — BY JOHANN WOLGANG VON GOETHE — ANOTHER ASCENT [10] — BY CHARLES DICKENS — CASTELLAMARE AND SORRENTO [11] — BY HIPPOLYTE ADOLPHE TAINE — CAPRI [13] — BY AUGUSTUS J. C. HARE — POMPEII [14] — BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
8. 8.OTHER ITALIAN SCENES — VERONA [15] — BY CHARLES DICKENS — PADUA [16] — BY THÉOPHILE GAUTIER — FERRARA [18] — BY THÉOPHILE GAUTIER — LAKE LUGANO [19] — BY VICTOR TISSOT — LAKE COMO [21] — BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY — BELLAGIO ON LAKE COMO [22] — BY W. D. M'CRACKEN — THE REPUBLIC OF SAN MARINO [23] — BY JOSEPH ADDISON — PERUGIA [26] — BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE — SIENA [28] — BY MR. AND MRS. EDWIN H. BLASHFIELD — THE ASSISSI OF ST. FRANCIS [29] — BY HIPPOLYTE ADOLPHE TAINE — RAVENNA [30] — BY EDWARD A. FREEMAN — BENEDICTINE SUBIACO [31] — BY AUGUSTUS J. C. HARE — ETRUSCAN VOLTERRA [32] — BY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT — THE PAESTUM OF THE GREEKS [33] — BY EDWARD A. FREEMAN
9. 9.SICILIAN SCENES — PALERMO [34] — BY WILL S. MONROE — GIRGENTI [35] — BY EDWARD A. FREEMAN — SEGESTE [37] — BY JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE — TAORMINA [38] — BY JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE — MOUNT ÆTNA [39] — BY WILL S. MONROE — SYRACUSE [40] — BY RUFUS B. RICHARDSON — MALTA [41] — BY THÉOPHILE GAUTIER
10. 10.THE MAINLAND OF GREECE — ON ARRIVING IN ATHENS—THE ACROPOLIS [42] — BY J. P. MAHAFFY — A WINTER IN ATHENS HALF A CENTURY AGO [43] — BY BAYARD TAYLOR — THE ACROPOLIS AS IT WAS [44] — BY PAUSANIAS — THE ELGIN MARBLES [45] — BY J. P. MAHAFFY — THE THEATER OF DIONYSUS [48] — BY J. P. MAHAFFY — WHERE PAUL PREACHED TO THE ATHENIANS [50] — BY J. P. MAHAFFY — FROM ATHENS TO DELPHI ON HORSEBACK [51] — BY BAYARD TAYLOR — CORINTH [52] — BY J. P. MAHAFFY — OLYMPIA [53] — BY PHILIP S. MARDEN — THE TEMPLE OF ZEUS AT OLYMPIA AS IT WAS [54] — BY PAUSANIAS — THERMOPYLÆ [55] — BY RUFUS B. RICHARDSON — SALONICA [56] — BY CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER — FROM THE PIERIAN PLAIN TO MARATHON [57] — BY CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER — AN EXCURSION TO SPARTA AND MAINA [58] — BY BAYARD TAYLOR — MESSENIA [59] — BY BAYARD TAYLOR — TIRYNS AND MYCENÆ [60] — BY J. P. MAHAFFY
11. 11.THE GREEK ISLANDS — A TOUR OF CRETE [61] — BY BAYARD TAYLOR — THE COLOSSAL RUINS OF CNOSSOS [62] — BY PHILIP S. MARDEN — CORFU [63] — BY EDWARD A. FREEMAN — RHODES [65] — BY CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER — MT. ATHOS [66] — BY CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER — FOOTNOTES:

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