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Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842, and 1843, Vol. 2 of 2

Mary Shelley

This final published work chronicles Shelley's European journeys with her son and his friends, revisiting Italy where she had lived with her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley.

"Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842, and 1843, vol. 2 of 2" by Mary Shelley is a travel narrative. This final published work chronicles Shelley's European journeys with her son and his friends, revisiting Italy where she had lived with her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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Strange and wild legends appertain to Prague, and people the heights that overhang the city. The Bohemians are of Sclavonian race; they were in early times fire-worshippers, and offered victims to their divinity on the Laurenzi Berg, which rises behind the town. On the Hradschin, an eminence that frowns above the Moldau, was built the palace of the old Bohemian kings; and the metropolitan church of Prague stands in the palace-yard, on the highest point of the imperial hill.

The most prosperous period for Prague was the reign of the Emperor Charles IV. He appears in 2no favourable light in the pages of Italian history; but he won immortal and deserved renown as King of Bohemia, by his acts of magnificence, and the liberality and sagacity of his government. He caused the Neustadt to be built, marking the width and termination of the streets, and leaving the spaces to be filled up by private individuals, on whom great privileges were bestowed: the size of the streets and open areas interspersed, give it a noble distinction among the ill-built towns of the middle ages. Churches and convents rose around. He built also the grand old Bridge, which spans the broad and curved stream of the Moldau, and he founded the University, which long vied with Paris and Oxford in celebrity.

Contents

  1. 01Part III.—1842.
  2. 02Letter I. Prague.
  3. 03Letter II. Mülchen.—Budweis.—Linz.
  4. 04Letter III. The Traun.—The Gmunden-see.—Ishl.—St. Wolfgang Lake.—Salzburg.
  5. 05Letter IV. Entrance to the Tyrol.—Village Fête.—Pass Strub.—Swartz.—Inspruck.
  6. 06Letter V. The Pass of the Brenner.—Hofer.—Bressanone.—Egra.—Trent.—Riva.—Lago di Garda.—Promontory of Sirmio.
  7. 07Letter VI. Verona.—Journey to Venice.—Leone Bianco.—Hotel d’Italia.
  8. 08Letter VII. The Ducal Palace.—The Academia delle Belle Arti.
  9. 09Letter VIII. Chiesa de’ Frari.—San Giorgio Maggiore.—Santa Maria della Salute.—Lido.—The Giudecca.—The Fondamenti Nuovi.—The Islands.—The Armenian Convent.
  10. 10Letter IX. Free Port.—Venetian Society.—Titles of the Nobility.—The Dotti.—Infant School.
  11. 11Letter X. Venetian Palaces.—Gondolieri.—Basilica of St. Mark.—Opera.—Illumination of the Fenice.
  12. 12Letter XI. Journey to Florence.—Cold and rainy Season.—Excursion to Vallombrosa.
  13. 13Letter XII. Art at Florence.—Cosimo Rosselli.—Ghirlandajo.—Beato Fra Angelico.—Poccetti.—Later Florentine School.
  14. 14Letter XIII. The Gallery.—Palazzo Pitti.—Le Belle Arti.—Portrait of Dante.—The Churches.
  15. 15Letter XIV. The Carbonari.
  16. 16Letter XV. Tuscany.
  17. 17Letter XVI. Italian Literature.—Manzoni.—Niccolini.—Colletta.—Amari.
  18. 18Letter XVII. Voyage to Rome.
  19. 19Letter XVIII. Raffaelle at Rome.
  20. 20Letter XIX. Ruins of Rome.—The Holy Week.—Music and Illuminations.
  21. 21Letter XX. The Pontifical States.
  22. 22Letter XXI. Insurrection of 1831.—Occupation of Ancona by the French.
  23. 23Letter XXII. Sorrento.—Capri.—Pompeii.
  24. 24Letter XXIII. Excursion to Amalfi.

About this edition

Author
Mary Shelley
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
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Length
184 pages
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Modern Philosophers