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Title: Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stieler, Karl, 1842-1885 Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Antonio, conte, 1843-1913, former owner. IU-R Paulus, Eduard, 1837-1907 Kaden, Woldemar, 1838-1907 Trollope, Frances Eleanor, d. 1913 Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892
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Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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thechurch of the Eremitani, and the Carmine ; but in point of Art, the Madonna dellArena is undoubtedly the most important. Its singular name is due to the fact that itwas erected on the ruins of a Roman amphitheatre : its value to artists lies in theprecious frescoes by Giotto, which fill nearly the whole oblong space. To the fame of arms which Padua enjoyed, there soon was added the fame of letters.The high school, founded by the Emperor Frederick the Second in 1222, assembled thestudious youth of all European countries. One is astonished on entering the splendidcourtyard with its colonnades, to behold the shields of red marble which bear the armsof many noble families, and to see amongst the statues which adorn the university-buildings that of a woman. It is the portrait of Lucretia Cornaro Piscopia, who died inthe year 1684, and who received academical honours in Padua. Hers is not the lowestamong the famous names which Padua has handed down to us ; but Padua has had butone Livy !
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