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| 89. | 2. | A Late Journey to Tuscany, Rome, etc. (1741), p. 16. |
| 3. | Travels, ii, 89. | |
| 4. | Travels, ii, 165. | |
| 90. | 1. | Ibid., ii, 174. |
| 2. | Letters from Italy, p. 223. | |
| 3. | Ibid., p. 265. | |
| 4. | That conditions throughout Italy had not greatly improved as late as 1847 we may learn from the following passage in a widely used guide-book. The testimony is the more significant as the makers of guide-books are likely to understate the difficulty of travel in the country they are exploiting:— "On the road between Florence and Naples I have seldom mentioned the inns, for really they are scarcely deserving the name: besides, each vetturini [!] has his own favourite house to stop at, and it is always better to let him go there.Italian Beds Will astonish, and no doubt please, married people who have been screwed up in small German and Swiss beds; the first sample, after passing the Alps by the Simplon, is seen at the ancient poste, Domo d'Ossola; and generally throughout Italy they are large enough for a man and his wife and four juveniles — but, notwithstanding their convenient size, they are not particularly soft; one thin mattress of wool is generally placed on the top of a palliasse, composed of dried leaves of Indian com; a really comfortable bed should have two wool mattresses at least; this, by giving a little notice to the chambermaid (i. e., man) will be readily effected. Madame Starke recommended travellers to carry their own sheets: had she also advised people to carry their own pillows, it would have been a wise suggestion; they are even now precious hard and flat, they must have been bullets in her time. Mosquito curtains are made of a fine muslin, which should be drawn tightly down; curtains with openings at the sides are literally of no use, the insinuating tormentors would creep through the eye of a needle." Coghlan, Hand-Book for Italy (1847), p. xx. | |
| 5. | Tivaroni, Storia del Risorgimento Italiano, i, 340, 341. | |
| 6. | Misson, New Voyage to Italy, i2, 382. | |
| 7. | Letters from Italy, p. 63. | |
| 91. | 1. | Ibid., p. 187. |
| 2. | Travels, pp. 157, 158. | |
| 3. | "St. Marco and II Pelegrino [at Bologna] have for some years past been famous for being the best inns in Italy." Keysler, Travels, iii, 249. | |
| 4. | Lettres sur l'Italie, ii, 255. | |
| 92. | 1. | Grand Tour, iii, 291. |
| 2. | Nugent counts the best inns at Naples Li tre Re, La Croce d'Oro, and Alle Colombe. "You may board and lodge in these inns for ten carlini a day, and for twelve carlini a day you may have a coach." Grand Tour, iii, 401. (A carlin was a silver coin worth about eight cents.) | |
| 3. | English-Italian for Piazza. |
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