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NEW

ITALIAN SKETCHES.


BY

JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS,

AUTHOR OF "SKETCHES IN ITALY," ETC.





COPYRIGHT EDITION.





LEIPZIG

BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ

1884.


The Right of Translation is reserved.





PREFATORY NOTE.


This volume of New Italian Sketches has been made up from two bookspublished in England and America under the titles of "Sketches andStudies in Italy" and "Italian Byways." It forms in some respects acompanion volume to my "Sketches in Italy" already published in theTauchnitz Collection of British Authors. But it is quite independent ofthat other book, and is in no sense a continuation of it. In making theselection, I have however followed the same principles of choice. Thatis to say, I have included only those studies of places, rather than ofliterature or history, which may suit the needs of travellers in Italy.

John Addington Symonds.

Davos Platz, Dec. 1883.







TO

CHRISTIAN BUOL AND CHRISTIAN PALMY

MY FRIENDS AND FELLOW-TRAVELLERS

I DEDICATE THIS BOOK.





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