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NAPLES RIVIERA
HERBERT M. VAUGHAN, B.A. (Oxon.)
AUTHOR OF “THE LAST OF THE ROYAL STUARTS”
WITH TWENTY-FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR BY
MAURICE GREIFFENHAGEN
METHUEN & CO
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON
TO
G. L. L.
IN MEMORY OF
MANY PLEASANT DAYS IN THE SUNNY SOUTH
THIS BOOK IS
AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
BY THE AUTHOR
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I PAGE Introductory 1 CHAPTER II The Vesuvian Shore and Monte Sant’ Angelo 8 CHAPTER III La Città Morta 38 CHAPTER IV Vesuvius 66LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGEBIBLIOGRAPHY
A small selection out of the books I have consulted during the preparation of this work is given below:—
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Pliny’s Letters: (Church’s and Brodribb’s Translation, London, 1897).
J. Phillips: Vesuvius (Oxford, 1869).
C. Ramage: Nooks and Byways of Italy.
C. Lenormant: À Travers la Lucanie et l’Apulie.
W. J. A. Stamer: Dolce Napoli (London, 1878).
E. Neville Rolfe: Naples in 1888.
Constance Giglioli: Naples in 1799.
C. L. Sismondi: Histoire des Républiques Italiennes.
L. Alberti: Descrizione di tutta l’ Italia (Venetia, 1596).
C. Mills: The Travels of Theodore Ducas (London, 1822).
Les Délices d’Italie (Paris, 1707).
Nuova Guida de’ Forastieri in Napoli, etc. (1751).
Count Stolberg: Travels through Italy and Sicily in 1756.
A. H. Norway: Naples, Past and Present (London, 1904).
E.
J. A. Symonds: Sketches and Studies in Italy.
Catherine Phillimore: Studies in Italian Literature (London, 1891).
T. A. Trollope: A Decade of Italian Women (London, 1859).
G. Boccaccio: Il Decamerone.
A. Mau: Pompeii: its Life and Art (New York, 1899).
J. Fergusson: Handbook of Architecture (London, 1859).
Franz von Reber: History of Ancient and Mediæval Art (New York, 1882).
E. Jameson: Sacred and Legendary Art (London, 1879).
J. Elworthy: History of the Evil Eye (London, 1888).
N. Valletta: Cicalata sul Fascino detto Jettatura (Napoli, 1819).
A. Canale: Storia dell’ Isola di Capri.
G. Amalfi: Tradizioni ed Vsi nella Penisola Sorrentina.