Two In Italy Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Two in Italy When they had tucked us and our belong ings safely into the cab and seen us started on our drive along the winding carriage-road which leads from the seashore to the upper plateau of the rocky islet, Semiramide, Olympia, and the other women took to the short cut, the way of the seven hundred steps, which from the time of Tiberius till the days of Victor Emanuel (when the new road was built) was the only path from the Marina Grande to Ana crap'. Our road made a wide loop and came back far above their heads. They looked up, laughing, at us, just as they looked and laughed at burne-j ones when he caught the impression that remains for our joy in his Golden Stair. That drive was a spiral of delights; every turn Of that corkscrew road gave us a finer and wider View of the sea and sky that the poets have sung from Theocritus to Verlaine almost prepared us for the draught of beauty awaiting us in the garden of Paradise. The cab stopped suddenly; my view was obscured by the guitar on the box, beside the driver. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.