About this book
Few writers have known Italy better than Stendhal: he was only seventeen when he first rode south across the Alps in the wake of Napoleon's armies, and he continued to travel and to live in Italy until a few months before his death. Some of his visits lasted only a few weeks, others continued for years, and he spent the last decade of his life as French Consul in Civitavecchia - yet he was never a tourist in the ordinary sense of the word.Italy, for Stendhal, was never a mere treasure trove of ruins, museums and galleries: it was the life of the country which fascinated him, its spirit, the inner workings of its heart and mind. This picture - or rather this living dream - of Italy he created is as fresh and tantalizing today as it was almost two centuries ago.
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Table of contents
- Translator's Foreword
- BERLIN
- ULM
- MUNICH
- MILAN
- BELGIOJOSO
- PAVIA
- PIACENZA
- REGGIO NELL' EMILIA
- SAMOGGIA
- BOLOGNA
- PIETRA MALA
- FLORENCE
- VOLTERRA
- CASTELFIORENTINO
- SIENNA
- TORINIERI
- AQUAPENDENTE
- BOLSENA
- VELLETRI
- ROME
- TERRACINA
- CAPUA
- NAPLES
- SALERNO
- PAESTUM
- OTRANTO
- CATANZARO
- NAPLES
- ROME
- NOTES
- BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX