- ED. [114] The Interior Of The Convent Of The Capucini Was First Painted By Granet In The Year 1811.

None of the numerous replicas are in the Louvre, but there is one in London (Buckingham Palace) and one at Chatsworth.

- ED.

[115] The author may have meant "old Herodotus." - ED.

[116] Virgil, Georg., II, 146. - ED.

CHAPTER XV

APRIL-JULY, 1818

Journey from Florence to Pisa and from thence by the Appennines to Genoa - Massa-Carrara - Genoa - Monuments and works of art - The Genoese - Return to Florence - Journey from Florence through Bologna and Ferrara to Venice - Monument to Ariosto in Ferrara - A description of Venice - Padua - Vicenza - Verona - Cremona - Return to Milan - The Scala theatre - Verona again - From Verona to Innspruck.

It is the custom for most travellers going to Genoa to embark on board of a felucca at Spezia, which lies on the sea coast, not far from Sarzana: but I preferred to go by land, and I cannot conceive why anyone should expose himself to the risks, inconveniences and delays of a sea passage, when it is so easy to go by land thro' the Appennines. I started accordingly the following morning, mounted on a mule, and attended by a muleteer with another mule to convey my portmanteau. I found this journey neither dangerous nor difficult, but on the contrary agreeable and romantic. The road is only a bridle road. I paid forty-eight franks for my two mules and driver, and started at seven in the morning from Sarzana.

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