A Traveller In Italy

by H.v. Morton

Overview

The Tuscan landscape, writes H. V. Morton, "is embroidered everywhere by human living, and there is scarcely a hill, a stream, a grove of trees, without its story of God, of love or death." Morton's stories and observations of Tuscany, Lombardy, Emilia, and Veneto, whether relating to the fantastic reconstruction of the La Scala opera house or the superstitious lovers at Juliet's Tomb, make his style as engaging as the landscape and people he evokes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780306810787
Publisher:	Hachette Books
Publication date:	03/28/2002
Pages:	640
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Henry Vollam Morton was born in 1892 near Manchester, England. He became an international celebrity by scooping the world's press in the sensational discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb in the early 1920s. His newfound fame subsequently led to a series of extraordinarily popular vignettes on English city and country life, which went on to sell millions of copies worldwide. He died in South Africa in 1979 at the age of eighty-six.

Table of Contents

Chapter I13
	To Lombardy by Settebello
	Milan and its Cathedral
	The Bones of S. Ambrose
	The Conversion of S. Augustine
	English Travellers in Milan
	The Visconti
	Chaucer and Milan
	A Visit to La Scala
	The Tomb of Verdi
Chapter II67
	The Castle of the Sforza
	Ludovico il Moro, and Beatrice d'Este
	Murder in the Cathedral
	The Last Supper
	Leonardo's Scientific Inventions
	Byron in the Ambrosiana
	Lucrezia Borgia's Hair
	Pavia and its University
	The Certosa and the Story of a Tomb
Chapter III108
	The Canals of Ancient Lombardy
	Lake Maggiore and Isola Bella
	A Visit to Pliny's Villa on Lake Como
	How Mussolini Died
	The Iron Cross of Lombardy
	Theodolinda's Chickens and Her Oil Bottles
	The Town of Gorgonzola
Chapter IV145
	The Beauty of Bergamo
	Colleoni's Chapel
	A Renaissance Farm
	San Pellegrino
	The Violin-Makers of Cremona
	Mantua and the Gonzaga
	A Mysterious Scotsman
	The Palace of Isabella d'Este
	An Admirer of Henry VIII
	An Early Glimpse of Ireland
	The Ghost Town of Sabbioneta
	Lake Garda and Sirmione
Chapter V208
	The Via Emilia
	Parma and Marie Louise
	Parmesan and Parma Ham
	The Etruscan Liver of Piacenza
	Where Verdi was Born
	A Visit to the Composer's Country House
	The Este Archives at Modena
	Mary of Modena
	Bologna
	The Law Schools of the Middle Ages
	Undergraduates of the Renaissance
	Women Professors
	The Stuarts in Bologna
Chapter VI254
	Rimini
	The Temple of Malatesta
	A Man who was sent to Hell
	Crossing the Rubicon
	Ravenna and its Revival
	The Tomb of Galla Placidia
	The Mosaics
	The Fall of Rome
	Ferrara and the Estensi
	England's First Greek Scholars
	Renaissance Space Travel
	Where Lucrezia Borgia was Buried
Chapter VII293
	Verona, a City of Red Marble
	The Roman Amphitheatre
	The Tomb of Juliet
	Vicenza
	The Palladian Theatre
	Padua and its University
	The Anatomy Theatre
	English Medical Students
	S. Anthony of Padua
	The Road to Venice
Chapter VIII332
	Arriving in Venice
	The Beadle of S. Mark's
	The Theft of S. Mark's Body
	The Greek Horses
	A Table at Florian's
	The Doges of Venice and the Dogaressas
	A Gondola on the Grand Canal
	Byron's Palace
	The Old German House
	Brother Fabri
Chapter IX369
	The Pigeons of S. Mark's
	The Arsenal of Venice
	The Mediaeval Assembly Line
	Life in a Venetian Galley
	Women of Venice
	Choppines
	Tom Coryat and the Courtesan
	Bellini and Carpaccio
	Painters and their Dogs
	Titian and Aretino
	Teriaca
	The Glass Works of Murano
Chapter X402
	Florence
	The Ponte Vecchio
	The Pazzi Conspiracy
	The Secret of the Medici
	The Benefactress of Florence
	The End of the Medici
	A Modern Troubadour
	The Gozzoli Fresco
	Innocents at Play
	Alone in a Palace
	The Boboli Gardens
	The Brownings and the Anglo-Florentines
Chapter XI492
	The Towers of S. Gimignano
	Siena and the Palio
	The Sienese Contrade and their Origins
	Blessing the Horse
	The Race
	A Pope's Adventures in Scotland
	Arezzo
	The House of Vasari
	The Madonna of Carda
	La Verna and S. Francis
	The Hermits of Camaldoli
	The Improvvisatori of Tuscany
Chapter XII562
	Into Umbria
	Hawkwood's Castle
	S. Margaret of Cortona
	Perugia, the City of Popes and Conclaves
	Rise of the Flagellants
	Visit to Gubbio
	Assisi
	S. Francis
	How the Saint's body was lost and found
	A Bird Sanctuary
	The Waters of Clitumnus
Appendix I	The Elevation of the Ceri at Gubbio	612
Appendix II	Famous Families of Italy	616
	The Visconti of Milan
	The Sforza
	The Gonzaga of Mantua
	The Estensi of Ferrara
	The Scaligeri of Verona
	The Medici of Florence
	The Borgias
	Bibliography	620
	Index	624