Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna (1877) (14590012348)

Identifier: italyfromalpstom00stie (find matches)
Title: Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stieler, Karl, 1842-1885 Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Antonio, conte, 1843-1913, former owner. IU-R Paulus, Eduard, 1837-1907 Kaden, Woldemar, 1838-1907 Trollope, Frances Eleanor, d. 1913 Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892
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Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign



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CORSO VITTORIO EMANUELE. it is of pure gold, and if Ignazio Cantu is to be trusted, the chapel of San Carlo containsthe value of more than four millions of francs. But noble and solemn as is the interior of the Duomo, we receive perhaps an evenmore striking impression when, after having climbed the hundreds of steps, we emerge intothe open air on the roof of the huge building. The thousands of marble statues surmounting MILAN. 95 airy pinnacles, seem to be the work of enchantment; and, fairy-like in the distance, wesee the blue chain of the Alps with Mont Blanc shining whitely aloft, and with the greatpasses, which serve for the intercourse of nations, in their shadowy depths. The
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MONK AT THE WELL IN THE CERTOSA. number of statues on the exterior of the Duomo is reckoned at two thousand ; among whicha statue of Eve is very celebrated. Canova too has contributed three master-pieces ;Rebecca, St. Dasius, and Napoleon the First. The latter is, without doubt, the finest; ofcolossal size, and bold as a hero of antiquity, the Caesar of our century stands thereholding in his clenched hand the lance with which he overthrew Europe. Motionless and 96 ITALY. marble cold, he looks down upon the city which he once ruled over, and where his stepsonEugene held a brilliant Court. But the Fates have made him serve as a symbol of theirirony ; for there are fourteen lightning conductors intended to protect the roof fromthunder-bolts, and—in order not to spoil the artistic harmony of the whole—these wiresare so arranged as to be held in the hands of figures armed with lance and shield, amongthem the great Corsican. He who caused his warlike lightnings to devastate wholenations