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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