Sketches and studies in Southern Europe.
Publisher: Harper
Published: 1880
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Alfieri, Vittorio, 1749-1803; Antinoüs, ca. 110-130; Colleoni, Bartolomeo, 1400-1475; Goldoni, Carlo, 1707-1793; Lucretius Carus, Titus; Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374; Poliziano, Angelo, 1454-1494; English literature -- Foreign influences; English language -- Prosody; Italian poetry -- History; Lombards and Lombardy; Folk songs, Italian; Alps; Athens (Greece) -- Description and travel; Como; Corsica (France); Florence (Italy) -- History; Provence (France) -- Description and travel; Sicily (Italy) -- Description and travel; Europe -- Description and travel; Italy -- Description and travel
Table of contents: title: Vol. 1. The Cornice, Ajaccio, Florence and the Medici.  The debt of English to Italian literature.  Popular Italian poetry of the Renaissance.  The Orfeo of Poliziano.  Siena, Perugia.  Popular songs of Tuscany.  Orvieto Thoughts in Rome about Christmas.  Antinous.  Lucretius. Amalfi, Paestum, Capri.-  Vol. 2. Palermo, Syracuse and Girgenti, Aetna. Athens.  Rimini.  Ravenna.  Canossa.  Parma.  Fornovo.  Two dramatists of the last century.  Crema and the crucifix.  Bergamo and Bartolommeo Colleoni.  Como and il Medeghino.  Lombard Vignettes.  Monte Generoso. Love of the Alps.  Old towns of provence.  Appendix: Blank verse.  Note on the Orfeo.  Eight sonnets of Petrarch.