Roma beata; letters from the Eternal city

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Maud Howe Elliott. Roma beata; letters from the Eternal city

Roma beata; letters from the Eternal city

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ROMA BEATA

I. LOOKING FOR A HOME

II. CADENABBIA—WOERISHOVEN—PFARRER SEBASTIAN KNEIPP

III. A VISIT TO QUEEN MARGARET

IV. A PRESENTATION TO LEO THE THIRTEENTH

V. IN THE ABRUZZI MOUNTAINS

VI. SCANNO

VII. VIAREGGIO—LUCCA—RETURN TO ROME

VIII. ROMAN CODGERS AND SOLITARIES

IX. BLACK MAGIC AND WHITE—WITCH’S NIGHT

X. ISCHIA

XI. OLD AND NEW ROME—PALESTRINA

XII. THE ANNO SANTO

XIII. THE QUEEN’S VISIT

XIV. STRAWBERRIES OF NEMI

XV. THE KING IS DEAD. LONG LIVE THE KING!

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Maud Howe Elliott

Published by Good Press, 2019

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July 28, 1894.

Thirty-six degrees centigrade for the last three days! Those clever children of yours will know how hot that really is. I don’t know, but people mop their brows a good deal, and say that the heat of this summer is “unprecedented and incredible.” It troubles me very little; once or twice only I have felt rather tired by it, and I fancy it is sharpening up my temper a little; but I eat and sleep like several tops, only I can’t do much of anything out of doors. Yesterday I went to see the friendly Countess C., who has a small city garden with shade-trees, under which we sat and consumed iced wine and cakes, and talked about the Pope. She is an American and very Black in her politics, though her husband is a White and fought for Victor Emmanuel.

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