The Complete Travel Books of W.D. Howells (Illustrated Edition). William Dean Howells

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target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="#ulink_a5ab5b7d-bf95-5472-82b1-bfa03d38d331">49 The rogues, it must be confessed, are often very polite. This same friend of mine one day found a man in the act of getting down into a boat with his favorite singing bird in its cage. “What are you doing with that bird?” he thought himself authorized to inquire. The thief looked about him a moment, and perceiving himself detected, handed back the cage with a cool ”La scusi!“ (“Beg pardon!”) as if its removal had been a trifling inadvertance.

      ITALIAN JOURNEYS

       Table of Contents

       The Road From Rome to Venice

       I. Leaving Venice

       II. From Padua to Ferrara

       III. The Picturesque, the Improbable, and the Pathetic in Ferrara

       IV. Through Bologna to Genoa

       V. Up and Down Genoa

       VI. By Sea From Genoa to Naples

       VII. Certain Things in Naples

       VIII. A Day in Pompeii

       IX. A Half-Hour at Herculaneum

       X. Capri and Capriotes

       XI. The Protestant Ragged Schools at Naples

       XII. Between Rome and Naples

       XIII. Roman Pearls

       Forza Maggiore

       At Padua

       I

       II

       III

       A Pilgrimage

       I

       II

       III

       A Visit to the Cimbri

       Minor Travels

       I. Pisa

       II. The Ferrara Road

       III. Trieste

       IV. Bassano

       V. Possagno, Canova's Birthplace

       VI. Como

       Stopping at Vicenza, Verona, and Parma


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