Italian Highways and Byways from a Motor Car

Italian Highways and Byways from a Motor Car
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Mansfield Milburg Francisco. Italian Highways and Byways from a Motor Car

CHAPTER I. THE WAY ABOUT ITALY

CHAPTER II. OF ITALIAN MEN AND MANNERS

CHAPTER III. CHIANTI AND MACARONIA

CHAPTER IV. ITALIAN ROADS AND ROUTES

CHAPTER V. IN LIGURIA

CHAPTER VI. THE RIVIERA DI LEVANTE

CHAPTER VII. ON TUSCAN ROADS

CHAPTER VIII. FLORENTINE BACKGROUNDS

CHAPTER IX. THE ROAD TO ROME

CHAPTER X. THE CAMPAGNA AND BEYOND

CHAPTER XI. LA BELLA NAPOLI

CHAPTER XII. THE BEAUTIFUL BAY OF NAPLES

CHAPTER XIII. ACROSS UMBRIA TO THE ADRIATIC

CHAPTER XIV. BY ADRIATIC’S SHORE

CHAPTER XV. ON THE VIA ÆMILIA

CHAPTER XVI. IN VENETIA

CHAPTER XVII. THROUGH ITALIAN LAKELAND

CHAPTER XVIII. MILAN AND THE PLAINS OF LOMBARDY

CHAPTER XIX. TURIN AND THE ALPINE GATEWAYS

CHAPTER XX. FROM THE ITALIAN LAKES TO THE RIVIERA

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ITALIAN politics have ever been a game of intrigue, and of the exploiting of personal ambition. It was so in the days of the Popes; it is so in these days of premiers. The pilots of the ships of state have never had a more perilous passage to navigate than when manœuvring in the waters of Italian politics.

There is great and jealous rivalry between the cities of Italy. The Roman hates the Piedmontese and the Neapolitan and the Bolognese, and they all hate the Roman, – capital though Rome is of Church and State.

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Conscription also applies to the naval service for the term of twelve years.

The military element, which one meets all over Italy, is astonishingly resplendent in colours and plentiful in numbers. At most, among hundreds, perhaps thousands, of officers of all ranks, there can hardly be more than a few score of privates. It is either this or the officers keep continually on the move in order to create an illusion of numbers!

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