| Transcriber’s note: This etext, which includes the twovolumes, attempts to replicate the printed book asclosely as possible. Obvious errors in spelling and punctuation havebeen corrected. A list follows the etext. The archaic spelling of words used bythe author (chesnuts, befel, visiters, cotemporary, woful, etc.) has not been corrected or modernized by the etexttranscriber. Footnotes have been moved to the end of the text body. |
| Contents, Volume I |
| Contents, Volume II |
ITALY;
WITH SKETCHES OF
SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.
BY THE AUTHOR OF “VATHEK.”
THIRD EDITION.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET,
Publisher in Ordinary to His Majesty.
1835.
ADVERTISEMENT.
SOME justly admired Authors having condescended to glean a few straythoughts from these Letters, which have remained dormant a great manyyears; I have been at length emboldened to lay them before the public.Perhaps, as they happen to contain passages which persons ofacknowledged taste have honoured with their notice, they may possibly beless unworthy of emerging from the shade into daylight than I imagined.
Most of these Letters were written in the bloom and heyday of youthfulspirits and youthful confidence, at a period when the old order ofthings existed with all its picturesque pomps and absurdities; whenVenice enjoyed her piombi and submarine dungeons; France her bastile;the Peninsula her holy Inquisition. To look back upon what is beginningto appear almost a fabulous era in the eyes of the modern children oflight, is not unamusing or uninstructive; for, still better toappreciate the present, we should be led not unfrequently to recall theintellectual muzziness of the past.
But happily these pages are not crowded with such records: they arechiefly filled with delineations of landscape and those effects ofnatural phenomena which it is not in the power of revolutions orconstitutions to alter or destroy.
A few moments snatched from the contemplation of political crimes,bloodshed, and treachery, are a few moments gained to all lovers ofinnocent illusion. Nor need the statesman or the scholar despise theoccasional relaxation of light reading. When Jupiter and the greatdeities are represented by Homer as retiring from scenes of havoc andcarnage to visit the blameless and quiet Ethiopians, who were thefarthest removed of all nations, the Lord knows whither, at the veryextremities of the ocean,—would they have given ear to manifestos orprotocols? No, they would much rather have listened to the Tales ofMother Goose.
London, June 12th, 1834.
CONTENTS
OF
THE FIRST VOLUME.
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