"I should perhaps do the reader a service by telling him just how a week at Perugia may be spent. His first care must …"

"O Milan, O the chanting quires, The giant windows’ blazon’d fires, The height, the space, the gloom, the glory! A mou…"

"Yes! pleased, on our land, from his azure way, The Sun ever smiles with unclouded ray. But never, fair isle, shall th…"

"Tarentum calls On you her wooers, no unworthy bride; Chief harbour, richest mart of Italy. Whither Philanthus, in Lac…"

"First of old of Oscan towns! Prize of triumphs, pearl of crowns; Half a thousand years have fled, Since arose thy roy…"

"And next Tarentum’s bay, Named, if report be true, from Hercules, Is seen; and opposite lifts up her head The goddess…"

"Then there is Amalfi, the most prosperous town in Lombardy, the most noble, the most illustrious on account of its co…"

"Sweet the memory is to me Of a land beyond the sea, Where the waves and mountains meet, Where amid her mulberry-trees…"

"There would I linger, then go forth again; And he who steers due east, doubling the cape, Discovers, in a crevice of …"

"A wealthy and populous city, none richer in silver, gold and garments from innumerable places."