Italy: A Popular Account of the Country, Its People, and Its Institutions (including Malta and Sardinia) |
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Adriatic Alps ancient Apennines Apulia Arno Basilicata belong Bologna Calabria called Campagna Campania canals Capri carried Catania century chain Church coast colour cone crater cultivation débris deposits district earthquakes east eruption especially Etna Etruscan export extensive feet Florence flourishing foot foreign Genoa Germany Gran Sasso Greek ground Gulf harbour heights hills important inhabitants island Italian kind Lago Lake land lava Leghorn Liguria limestone Lipari Lombardy masses Messina middle Milan miles Monte Monte Gargano Monte Vulture Monti Monti Lepini mountains Naples narrow neighbourhood Northern Ofanto olive owing Palermo partly peninsula Piedmont Pisa plain plateau Pope population produced provinces railway rise river rock Roman Rome Salerno Sardinia shore Sicilian Sicily side slope soil Southern Italy springs streams streets sulphur Tiber tons town trade trees tufa Turin Tuscany Tyrrhenian Tyrrhenian Sea Umbria upper valley Venice Vesuvius volcanic walls whole wine winter
Popular passages
Page 326 - E sì, savè? co giera da maridar, dei spassi no me ne mancava. Son stada arlevada ben. Mia mare' giera una donna sutila, e se qualcossa no ghe piaseva, la saveva criar e la saveva menar le man. Ma ai so tempi la ne dava i nostri divertimenti. Figurarse...
Page 326 - Co stevimo po in casa, ghavevimo sempre la nostra conversazion. Vegniva i parenti, vegniva i amici, anca qualche zovene; ma no ghe giera pericolo, figurarse. LUCIETTA (« Figurarse, figurarse »; la l'ha dito fin adesso sie volte). MARGARITA No digo; che no son de quele che ghe piasa tutto el zorno andar a torziando '". Ma, sior sì, qualche volta me piaserave anca a mi.
Page 326 - Se qualchedun ghe dava una chiave de palco la ne menava all'opera, se no, a la comedia, e la comprava la so bona chiave, e la spendeva i so boni bezzeti. La procurava de andar dove la saveva che se fava de -le comedie bone de poderghe menar de le fie, e la vegniva con nu, e se divertivimo.
Page 43 - The rock crumbles after a fall of rain; it is completely broken up by frost and thus easily forms landslips, a great danger to roads and railways, and only to be remedied by alteration of route or by thorough drainage. As a rule nothing grows on these barren slates and clays but scanty grasses, so that extensive...
Page 326 - Andévimo figurarse, qualche volta a Reduto; un pochetin sul Liston, un pochetin in Piazzeta da le stròleghe, dai buratini, e un per de volte ai casoli.
Page 86 - ... from behind or from below. Train traffic is constantly being interrupted in the spring, and for the most part in consequence of the threatened fall of a bridge, or of inroads of mud such as are called lave in Campania.
Page 307 - Philip proceeded to establish an hospital for the reception of poor pilgrims, who, coming to Rome to visit the tombs of St. Peter and St. Paul, were obliged, for want of a lodging, to lie in the streets and at the doors of churches.
Page 326 - E sì, sàla? no vedeva l'ora, che el se tornasse a maridar. Co giera' sola, in casa, diseva tra de mi: lo compatisso * sior padre; élo no me vol menar, nol gh'ha nissun da mandarme; se el se marida, anderò co siora maregna...
Page 399 - It is the chief town of a province of the same name, comprising the territory surrounding the lake of Maraeaybo, and containing 33,07Г> square miles, and a population (1804) of f>0,.'!ll.
Page 197 - ... assiduously thinned by cutting or picking. In Campania the grapes are grown between poplars and mulberry trees, the stem of the vine being supported by the tree and the branches spreading out on both sides in the spaces between, and are so bound together with light reeds as to form a green wall, to which the grapes hang freely so that the sunlight can reach them.