Book/Printed Material Italy, Rome and Naples,
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Image 1 of Italy, Rome and Naples,
- Contributor: Durand, John - Taine, Hippolyte
- Date: 1873
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Image 2 of Italy, Rome and Naples, Class lj Lj^ Book. /8?Z
- Contributor: Durand, John - Taine, Hippolyte
- Date: 1873
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Image 3 of Italy, Rome and Naples,
- Contributor: Durand, John - Taine, Hippolyte
- Date: 1873
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Image 4 of Italy, Rome and Naples,
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- Date: 1873
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Image 5 of Italy, Rome and Naples,
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Image 6 of Italy, Rome and Naples,
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Image 7 of Italy, Rome and Naples, Yi ITALY ROME AND NAPLES FROM THE FRENCH OF tt -n H vT A I N E BY J. DURAND Fourth Edition, with Corrections and an Index NEW YORK HOLT WILLIAMS i8…
- Contributor: Durand, John - Taine, Hippolyte
- Date: 1873
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Image 8 of Italy, Rome and Naples, Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1888, By LEYPOLDT HOLT, In the Clerk s office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern ]»trict of New…
- Contributor: Durand, John - Taine, Hippolyte
- Date: 1873
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Image 9 of Italy, Rome and Naples, rN TEODUOTIOS To M at Park, January 15, 1864. Do you know anything more disagreeable than an entr acte You sit uneasily in your chair and stretch your limbs and yawn discreetly.…
- Contributor: Durand, John - Taine, Hippolyte
- Date: 1873
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Image 10 of Italy, Rome and Naples, IV INTRODUCTION. is lost, the entr acte being so much more tedious than the play is amusing. There are an infinity of entr actes in travelling. These are the dull hours of…
- Contributor: Durand, John - Taine, Hippolyte
- Date: 1873
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Image 11 of Italy, Rome and Naples, INTRODUCTION. V they present themselves. Provided the artist is stirred by a profound passionate sentiment, and desires only to express this fully, as it animates him, without hesitation, feebleness, or reservation, the…
- Contributor: Durand, John - Taine, Hippolyte
- Date: 1873
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Image 12 of Italy, Rome and Naples, VI INTRODUCTION. somewhat myself and have endeavoured to provide other lenses as occasion calls for them, which is possible, inas- much as education, history, and criticism furnish the means for so doing.…
- Contributor: Durand, John - Taine, Hippolyte
- Date: 1873
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Image 13 of Italy, Rome and Naples, CONTENTS. zcn BOOK I. TEE ROUTE AND THE ARRIVAL. CHAPTER I. PAtil MARSEILLES AND PROVENCE THE SEA CIVITA VECCHIA 1 CHAPTER II. ROME THE COLOSSEUM— ST. PETER S A NIGHT PROMENADE THE…
- Contributor: Durand, John - Taine, Hippolyte
- Date: 1873
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Image 14 of Italy, Rome and Naples, VIU CONTEXTS. CHAPTER IV. TAGS the museo borbonico the paintings, sculptures, manners, customs, and religion of antiquity modern pictures, and the sixteenth century 53 CHATTER V. SOCIAL STATE POLITICS, SCIENCE, AND RELIGION…
- Contributor: Durand, John - Taine, Hippolyte
- Date: 1873
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Image 15 of Italy, Rome and Naples, CONTENTS. IX CHAPTER V. PAGH PAINTING RAPHAEL, FIRST EXPERIENCES DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EASEL AND MURAE PAINTING TRANSFORMATION OF THE HU- MAN MIND IN THE INTERVAL BETWEEN THE SIXTEENTH A3 D NINETEENTH CENTURIES THE…
- Contributor: Durand, John - Taine, Hippolyte
- Date: 1873
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Image 16 of Italy, Rome and Naples, COXTEXTS. CHAPTEE III. PAGE THE FARNESE PALACE THE SCIARRA, DORIA, BORGHESE, BAR- BERINI, AND ROSPIGLIOSI PALACES AND GALLERIES THE PAINTINGS OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES 218 CHAPTER IV. CHURCHES CHARACTER OE…
- Contributor: Durand, John - Taine, Hippolyte
- Date: 1873
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Image 17 of Italy, Rome and Naples, CONTEXTS. XI CHAPTER III. PACT S THE PEOPLE— THE ADMINISTRATION OPINIONS .298 CHAPTER IV. THE t/OVERNHENT, ITS SUPPORT AND ITS INSTINCTS .308 CHAPTER V. RELIGION THE TJNITA CATTOLICA BOOKS OBSERVANCES THE COUNTRY…
- Contributor: Durand, John - Taine, Hippolyte
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Image 19 of Italy, Rome and Naples, ITALY. BOOK I. THE ROUTE AND THE ABBIVAL. CHAPTEE I. MAKSEILLES AND PROVENCE THE SEA CIVITA YECCHIA. Marseilles and Provence. Here already is the true southern country; it begins with the Cevennes.…
- Contributor: Durand, John - Taine, Hippolyte
- Date: 1873
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Image 20 of Italy, Rome and Naples, 2 THE ROUTE AND THE ARRIVAL. Suddenly all the magnificences of the south appear the Etang de Berre, a glittering blue pool, motionless in its cup of white mountains then the sea,…
- Contributor: Durand, John - Taine, Hippolyte
- Date: 1873
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Image 21 of Italy, Rome and Naples, THE SEA. 3 At sea. The weather this morning is calm, mild, and misty. The little crested waves stud the slaty fog with brightness dripping clouds hang around the four corners of…
- Contributor: Durand, John - Taine, Hippolyte
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Image 22 of Italy, Rome and Naples, 4 THE ROUTE AND THE ARRIVAL. grand wild element is valueless man cannot tame it, subdue it, or accommodate it to his usages. Civita Vecchia. The vessel comes to anchor. Through the…
- Contributor: Durand, John - Taine, Hippolyte
- Date: 1873
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Image 23 of Italy, Rome and Naples, CIV1TA VECCHIA. 5 B,nd proud as a prince, besides various expressive figures standing about, many of them handsome, almost all ener- getic and gesticulating like actors, often with a sort of comic…
- Contributor: Durand, John - Taine, Hippolyte
- Date: 1873
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Image 24 of Italy, Rome and Naples, THE ROUTE AND THE ARRIVAL. brown ana black mantles, hang about the street-corners, inhaling the steam cf frying-pans, and contemplating the sea- Certainly for the last ten years they must have slept…
- Contributor: Durand, John - Taine, Hippolyte
- Date: 1873
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Image 25 of Italy, Rome and Naples, CIV1TA VECCHIA. 7 softened with a brush. There are no trees on them thai could be called such, but shrubs like the broom, juniper, mastic, gorze, and other evergreens. All this is…
- Contributor: Durand, John - Taine, Hippolyte
- Date: 1873
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Image 26 of Italy, Rome and Naples, CHAPTER II. ROME THE COLOSSEUM ST. PETER S A NIGHT PROMENADE THE FORUM FROM ROME TO NAPLES TYPICAL CHARACTERS. Haying one day in Rome, I determined to see the Colosseum and St.…
- Contributor: Durand, John - Taine, Hippolyte
- Date: 1873
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Image 27 of Italy, Rome and Naples, ROME THE COLOSSEUM. 9 the enormous wall projecting above them. This then, you say to yourself, was a circus on these graded seats sat a hundred and seven thousand spectators, yelling, applauding,…
- Contributor: Durand, John - Taine, Hippolyte
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Image 28 of Italy, Rome and Naples, 10 THE EOUTE AND THE AEKIVAL. ferocious poets, who, instead of writing out or painting their phantasies, practised them. Many artists in modern times resemble these, but fortunately they confine them- selves…
- Contributor: Durand, John - Taine, Hippolyte
- Date: 1873
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Image 29 of Italy, Rome and Naples, ROME THE COLOSSEUM. 11 The Romans, however, have always lacked a sentiment of justice and humanity, and not alone in antiquity, but also in the Renaissance, and in the middle ages. They…
- Contributor: Durand, John - Taine, Hippolyte
- Date: 1873
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Image 30 of Italy, Rome and Naples, 12 THE EOUTE AND THE ARRIVAL. it is this power of the individual which has here closed the avenue to nationality. In the centre of the arena is a cross. A man…
- Contributor: Durand, John - Taine, Hippolyte
- Date: 1873
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Image 31 of Italy, Rome and Naples, EOME THE COLOSSEUM. 18 some smoking, and others strolling up and down, and exchanging comments on the weather, and on passers-by. Three or four, with their bare knees shining through their rao…
- Contributor: Durand, John - Taine, Hippolyte
- Date: 1873
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Image 32 of Italy, Rome and Naples, 14 THE ROUTE AND THE ARRIVAL. y Flace de La Concorde, compared with it, are simply operatic decorations. The piazza rises upward from the bottom, and is thus embraced in a single…
- Contributor: Durand, John - Taine, Hippolyte
- Date: 1873
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Image 33 of Italy, Rome and Naples, ROME: ST. PETERS. 15 which, amidst all these Christian terrors, seem to afford glimpses into paradise. On the contrary, there is no simple, pnre emotion in this church. It is a composition…
- Contributor: Durand, John - Taine, Hippolyte
- Date: 1873
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Image 34 of Italy, Rome and Naples, 16 THE ROUTE AND THE ARRIVAL. the interior decoration of this church in order to see to what vices they inclined. Bernini has infested it witti mannered statues, who caper and give…
- Contributor: Durand, John - Taine, Hippolyte
- Date: 1873
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Image 35 of Italy, Rome and Naples, A NIGHT PROMENADE. 17 Greek life. Crosses, images of martyrs, gold skeletons, and other similar objects, form too many emblems of mystification and mystic renunciation. It is, in fine, an immense spectacle…
- Contributor: Durand, John - Taine, Hippolyte
- Date: 1873
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Image 36 of Italy, Rome and Naples, 18 THE ROUTE AXD THE ARRIVAL. giants writhing and leaping in the midst of sparks and glittering bubbles. Window cornices, vast projecting balconies, and the sculptured edges of the roofs cut the…
- Contributor: Durand, John - Taine, Hippolyte
- Date: 1873
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Image 37 of Italy, Rome and Naples, THE FORUM. 19 tween the openings above, rests on the pale blue, the peculiar azure of night, like a panel of crystal incrusted with sparks. Advancing a few steps, the divine cupola…
- Contributor: Durand, John - Taine, Hippolyte
- Date: 1873
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Image 38 of Italy, Rome and Naples, 20 THE ROUTE AND THE ARRIVAL. carpet of dead vegetation, washed by the rains, and scat- tered by the winds. Purplish grey clonds hang heavily overhead, and the locomotive discharges its rolling…
- Contributor: Durand, John - Taine, Hippolyte
- Date: 1873
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Image 39 of Italy, Rome and Naples, TYPICAL CHARACTERS. 21 square head, planted on a solid trunk, with large sensual lips, and an expression of coarse gaiety, either grotesque or satiric. There is the lean, dark, sunburnt animal, whose…
- Contributor: Durand, John - Taine, Hippolyte
- Date: 1873
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Image 40 of Italy, Rome and Naples, BOOK 11. NAPLES. CHAPTER I. CLIMATE AND COUNTRY THE STREETS OF NAPLES CHURCHES THE CONVENT OF SAN MARTINO. Naples: February 20. Another climate, another sky, almost another world. On approaching the bay…
- Contributor: Durand, John - Taine, Hippolyte
- Date: 1873
About this Item
Title
- Italy, Rome and Naples,
Names
- Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893.
- Durand, John, 1822-1908, tr.
Created / Published
- New York, Holt & Williams, 1873.
Headings
- - Italy--Description and travel
- - Rome (Italy)--Description and travel
- - Naples (Italy)--Description and travel
- - Art, Italian
Notes
- - Also available in digital form.
Medium
- xi, 363 p. 22 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- DG427 .T145 1873
Library of Congress Control Number
- 15019009
Online Format
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- online text