The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-03-04

clO40d1hbOos AiI aACO hhC"S 49,
erals Which and Carl Schurz, both
of whom he regards very highly. We
exchanged sentiments over our wine
flask, and smoked the pipe of peace
in the shape of poor French cigars.
While he would speak in German OF
great purity to me, he would carry on
conversation with my companions IN
elegant French or English. These Rus
slams generally are such fine lingulsts.
At Genoa we all took rooms at the
Hotel de la Vile, formerly one
of the many palaces in which this
city abounds. Here we tarrled two
days, and then took railroad for Flo
renee, where Mr.. Herzen remained
with his son, who holds here a Pro-
fessorship at one of the Italian insti~
buttons of learning. Genoa, la su-
perba as she has been called, well
deserves that name. She is beautiful,
as can testify, for I saw her in all
her beauty from an elevation of twelve
hundred feet, near the highest for
tress commanding the surrounding
elevations. / saw her perching
on the side of the sloping
hills in the sunshine, looking to
the southwest out upon the blue
sea, where her spacious harbor, with
forrest of masts, is guarded by two
substantial and long moles-verily
does she well deserve the name of ia
superba. " The number and size of
her palaces is the grand distinguish
ing feature of this city, whole streets,
such as the Via Nuora, Via Nuorissi-
mo, and Via Balbi, consisting of
nothing but palaces, one of which,
the Palazzo Reale, having front of
three hundred feet We visited the
Palazzo Brignole Sale " and its
fine gallery of paintings, which
contains works by such masters as
Titan, Guido, Paul Veronese, and
Vandyke. The Palazzo Durazza con-
tains fifty thousand engravings. Its
portal is reached by two magnificent
terraces, which have served as models
for hundreds like them all over Eu-
rope. The Pallavicciari has amongst
its treasures a number of the great
masters. In the Palazza Sierra we
were shown the banquet room. The
gliding alone in this single room cost
one million francs. The Palaces be-
longing to the Doria's and numerous
other great families surround one on
all sides, often in the narrowest
and dirtiest of Italian streets, and
many of them are given up to quite
plebian purposes, such as baker-shops,
old furniture stores, and chestnut
stands. The Theatre Carlo Felice,
where we heard the opera " L. Afri-
caine magnifcently performed, is
next to La Scala at Milan, and the
"San Carlo " at Naples, the largest
theatre in Europe. Near the house
where Columbus lived, stands SPLEEN
did monument erected to his memory
by his Genoese fellow townsmen. A
little town through which we
passed before entering Genoa,
shows the home in which it is claimed
the great discoverer was born. The
churches of Genoa, like many others
in Italy, are magnificent inside, but
quite unfinished, and at the same time
dilapidated on the outside. The Ca
thedral looks well, as it is built of al
ternate layers of white and black mar
BILE. Here the Sarcophagus and relics
of St. John the Baptist are shown.
Women are forbidden from entering
the chapel containing them except
ON one day of the year, the Saints
death being at the instigation
of woman. The church of
l'Amourciata is beautiful inside,
with its many-colored marbles, fine
frescoes, and rich gildings, as is also
the Church of San Ambrogiandi
Geside; the latter contains, amongst
other fine paintings, the Assumption,
bylGindo, and the Circumcision, by
Rubens.
In Florence, the Capital of
Italy,we tarried but one day, for the
weather still continued bad, and we
intend making long stay here on
our return North. We visited, how
ever, the Duomo, or Cathedral Santa
Maria del Fiore, one of the
grandest of Italy's architecture
L.