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| pathetic career returned, disguised as q
wandering shepherd, aud was welcomed
and adored by his devoted sister,
Cornelia. Beyond is Castellemmare,
now
THE SUMMER RESORT OF THE NEAPoLITAN
ARIsToCRACY,
! just as 1t was in ancient times when
Augustus NJ. Agrippa and Antonius Plus
sought the cool cloisters of its majestic
chestnut groves and enjoyed, as one may
now enjoy, the fragrance and delight of
its orange groves and plantations of null
berry, pomegranate, fig and olive; and
where the elder Pliny persisted while OBJ
serving the Yesuvean eruption which
buried the city and with it Her
| culaneum and Pompeii. But
few miles further, between where
the waters of the river Serna come
tumbling through the vineyards into the
sea and the Boseo, or wooded region
of Vesuvius. stand the silent walls of
Pompeii, every avenue, structure, mon
ument, tomb, palace and habltation
nearly as perfect and equally as well
directoried, as before its seventeen CEN
turtles of silence beneath its ashy pail
Heroulaneum is found but a few miles
mort Inward toward Naples. Around on
the other side of the gulf, Ischla, dream
of natural beauty and luxurisnt vegeta-
ton, was the marine of the ancients.
Beneath its volcanic Mount Epomeo lay,
like Euceladus under EtnR, the giant
Typheus, transfxed by the thunderbolt
of Jupiter, ever moaning, and OCCASION
ally believing, in his awful throes and
pam. After Rome g fall Tschia suffered
untold vicissitudes. The celebrated
general, Marchesse Pescars, was born in
its castle. His sister, the brave and
noble Constance, heroicallY defended it
against the French forces of Louis Il.
And II was to Ischia that the talented
Vittoria Colonna, wife of Pescara, the
platonic and poetical adorer of Michael
Angelo, retired to mourn her kingly
husband $ loss. Proeida, islet of houses
glistening white, of the wins and wine
and fishermen, where, during the festi-
val of ST. Michael in September, the
women don the olden Greek costume
of red and gold and dance the
tarentel la in weird and fantastic orgies,
lies between Ischia and the Neapoli-
tan mainland of Cape Mseno. Then,
Posilipo, Send of care, - where the no.
torious glutton, Vedius Polio, built his
wondrous epieurean villa, afterwards
possessed by Augustus. But the real
shrine here is above Posilipo among the
leafy vineyards of the heights. Here in
q iittle vaulted chamber hardly sixteen
feet square another immortal dreamed
and wrote. There the Georges and
Kneid were composed, and here in this
old Roman colunbarium, is the tomb OF
the gentle Virgil. Thus at the two ex-
tremitles of the mainland headlands of
the shining Neapolitan gulf lived two of
the divinest poets the world has ever
known-Virgil among the vines upon the
heights at the north; Tasso, OF later
and sadder hour, among the chestnut |
groves and olives of the south; intel |
lectual beacons of god-iike power to |
shine with undiminished flame from the |
twin headland horrs of this Wondrous |
crescent shore through all
THE CYCLES OF RECORDED TIME.
So believe it is more the Hydrologic,
historic and poetic associations with |
which all the beautiful environs of Ma
Piles are rife, flavor of which cannot |
but at some time and in some way he con- |
jured IN the fancy of every traveller of |
sy mpafhetie and receptive mind that /
have lent such an inds6nable charm to
Naples itself. Surely it is a splendid and /
popuiuus city, housing now over hslf
million ssuss. Forming with its sec
ond nirciiEg ridge double crescent,
it presents from any point of view,
eithar in the bay or upon either sweep of
shore most superb scene to the be-
holder. Its hundreds of churches srs /
sufficiently grim, dismal, and the reposi-
tories of ample enough ecelesiastie art,
to satisfy the hungriest Feneration for
ai that sort OF thing. Its national