The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1879-01-23
For Tns Posr.
European Correspondent.
LETTER No. 16.
Northern Rain.


po.ei for our talt letter, and q,
over mentally the places to bc men.
toned, Verona, Flor"nc'. p,-a,
Genoa, Milan, T.rin, and the beau
.Ifil Nortbern Italy, va can but in
stinciively shrink from the attcmp'
to crowd into one letter what would
receive poor treatment in % lull hall
dozen.
Verona is attractive {, tho ,rav-
eler for two things. the Amphithratre
ani tho swindle known ~ J,liet's
ronb Mkt TO the Coliseum NJ
II M the Verona Amph,t,tcatrc is
tue graniest work of the ancient
Romans which has come down to us
But little interior in size to toe
Coli.enn il is m remarkably well
pres rccd that in its vast rows Of seats
which rise one above another hardly
q stone is missing, ani it coali scat
i's audcnco OF $4,000 p op.e Us
comfortably now a. IN the unknovn
time more than 1000 years ago
when il was bnl'. ftNe arena ware
excavate to its former level and the
dungeons aud drns cleared out ihc
Roman prefeGt might again take his
place oil honor, ,hc Roman aniionc
iaa'n crowd IN upon the st'nc seats
and even tho gladatJrs aud Wild
b a>,s sprinl from the under srInli
passages into the arena as in former
ines.
There ia perhaps nothing in the
English Language q, tr,rliv1 I,
lover, ~ Shase.pcar's "It,n-o ani
Juliet" and thi' is probiry the rrn-
son why travellers who stop ot Vrr,-
oa almost without ao exception e.
hrongh n largo garden I, an ordl.
nary h,us'. and 10 the wnoi shod al
1hing gaze in admiration on a lar,e
stone hjrse-tron.h. which, without
The slightest foundation 10 fact. j.
called tue Tomb OF Juliet, Nuthlna
can he less ronln'ic aud alt"r one
iair view OF the supposoi wonder l,
begins to dawn ut,0n W that the
whole thing i one of those mum,
lTons devices which are 80 commuu
to got money out Of the nuiniale,
,ravelcr. 1t does not require Il
VIVID imagination to realize that IN,
offcious attendant who is juggling
onr money In his p1cket, is lausiiag
at u. as u party Of ninneys whilc h
smiles 50 bl,nily on uS as wo quickly
take our departure.
There is 'obably no city in Italy
which is on the whole 40 pleasing t.
travellers and 10 which 30 manv cul.
tured foreigners livo as Florence
Besides being city OF palaces, auI
bean .ifnl drives, it is the birthplace
aud home Of art. Her many beau
tifui churches, her nuneroas an
rich galleries OF art aud her hundreds
Of studios aud artists, make her i
favorite home Of literary and cnl-
tnred people, The art collections
in the Ulfizi aud pitti Palace collec
tions are themselves the work o
weeks to stuley carefully. and o.
volumes to Justly describe. Here
in one room ara the Venus de Medic
the Appolino, the Wrestlers th,
/ Grinders, aud the Dancing Faun
collection OF the master pieces q
ancient art which can hardly b,
eqlalled any where else in the world
In the church of ST. Lorenzo is tn,
CHAPEL oi the Medici family said t
be tue most exp, usively constructec
tomb in the world excepting onl,
one in u heather temple in India
Florence has deem the birthplace ol
home OF many dist inguisbed men
and their homes are yet pointe'
out to the traveller Among thes'
may be mentioned Michael Angelo
Dante, Gaiileo. Giibsrti, Machiauilll
aud Amerigo yespucci from WHOM
Americl took its name In th
iinglish cenitery lie the remains ol
Mrs. Browning, Walter Savag
Landor, Theodore Parker, an
many English and Americans who's
names are not 40 widely known
In 1870 piece OF one oi the raj
ling families Of India died sudlsnl
~ Floronce aud his body was bul
isi jnst .'ntside the oity with I'll th
forms end esvsnoniss Of the Hind
|yolIgIon nd 3 ma0nllcent mou
|nn> go nt>>oknd an Ana .nnok n q