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Forza Maggiore 178
At Padua 196
A Pilgrimage to Petrarch's House at Arqu? 216
A Visit to the Cimbri 235
Stopping at Vicenza, Verona, and Parma 293
Ducal Mantua 321
THE ROAD TO ROME FROM VENICE.
LEAVING VENICE.
We did not know, when we started from home in Venice, on the 8th of November, 1864, that we had taken the longest road to Rome. We thought that of all the proverbial paths to the Eternal City that leading to Padua, and thence through Ferrara and Bologna to Florence, and so down the sea-shore from Leghorn to Civita Vecchia, was the best, the briefest, and the cheapest. Who could have dreamed that this path, so wisely and carefully chosen, would lead us to Genoa, conduct us on shipboard, toss us four dizzy days and nights, and set us down, void, battered, and bewildered, in Naples? Luckily,
"The moving accident is not my trade,"
for there are events of this journey which, if I recounted them with unsparing sincerity, would forever deter the reader from taking any road to Rome.
Though, indeed, what is Rome, after all, when you come to it?
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