The Italian
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1971
Number of pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780192811059
First sentence: About the year 1764, some English travellers in Italy, during one of their excursions in the environs of Naples, happened to stop before the portico of the Santa Maria del Pianto, a church belonging to a very ancient convent of the order of the Black Penitents.