The Picturesque Uruj Was Painted By Velasquez; The
Other Entertained A Polite Epistolatory Correspondence With Aretino, And
Died, To His Regret, "Like A Coward" In Bed.
I never visit
Constantinople without paying my respects to that calm tomb at
Beshiktah, where, after life's fitful fever, sleeps the Chief of the Sea.
And so things went on till recently. K. Ph. Moritz writes that King
Ferdinand of Naples, during his sporting excursions to the islands of
his dominions, was always accompanied by two cruisers, to forestall the
chance of his being carried off by these Turchi. But his loyal
subjects had no cruisers at their disposal; they lived Turcarum
praedonibus semper obnoxii. Who shall calculate the effects of this
long reign of terror on the national mind?
For a thousand years - from 830 to 1830 - from the days when the
Amalfitans won the proud title of "Defenders of the Faith" up to those
of the sentimental poet Waiblinger (1826), these shores were infested by
Oriental ruffians, whose activities were an unmitigated evil. It is all
very well for Admiral de la Graviere to speak of "Gallia Victrix" - the
Americans, too, might have something to say on that point. The fact is
that neither European nor American arms crushed the pest. But for the
invention of steam, the Barbary corsairs might still be with us.
XIX
UPLANDS OF POLLINO
It has a pleasant signification, that word "Dolcedorme": it means
Sweet slumber. But no one could tell me how the mountain group came by
this name; they gave me a number of explanations, all fanciful and
unconvincing.
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