Letters from Italy

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Letters from Italy (1929)
by Karel Čapek, illustrated by Richard Howard Penton, translated by Francis Petherick Marchant

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Collection of feuilletons, originally written in Czech for the newspaper Lidové noviny in 1923

Karel ČapekRichard Howard Penton4789455Letters from Italy1929Francis Petherick Marchant

LETTERS FROM ITALY

By the same Author

LETTERS FROM ENGLAND
KRAKATIT
R.U.R.
THE INSECT PLAY, ETC. , ETC.

The Rocca
San Marino.

LETTERS FROM
ITALY

By
KAREL ČAPEK

Translated by FRANCIS P. MARCHANT

with six pen-drawings by
R. H. PENTON

Kennst du das Land, wo die Citronen blühn?
Gœthe, “Mignon’s Song."

BESANT & CO. LTD.
21 ORANGE STREET, W.C.2

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN

CONTENTS

ChapterPage
	Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	ix
ChapterI.	Venice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	13
II.	Padua and Ferrara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	19
III.	Ravenna and San Marino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	23
IV.	Florence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	27
V.	Siena and Orvieto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	31
VI.	Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	37
VII.	Neapolitan Folk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	41
VIII.	Palermo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	48
IX.	From Palermo to Taormina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	54
X.	In the Hand of Fate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	60
XI.	underground Cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	64
XII.	The Antique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	69
XIII.	From Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	73
XIV.	Sweet Umbria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	78
XV.	Tuscany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	82
XVI.	Genoa and Milan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	86
XVII.	The Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	90
XVIII.	Verona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	93
XIX.	Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	99
XX.	Bolzano (Bozen) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	103
	Epilogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	107

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The Rocca, San MarinoFrontispiece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Arch of S. Giuseppe, Siena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		33
The Cloisters S. Giovanni Degli, Palermo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		49
The Coast near Taormina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		57
Church of S. Zeno Maggiore, Verona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		75
Mantua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		95

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The longest-living author of this work died in 1938, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 86 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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