THE

CLASSIC AND CONNOISSEUR

IN

ITALY AND SICILY:

WITH

AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING AN

Abridged Translation of Lanzi's Storia Pittorica.

BY THE

REV. G. W. D. EVANS.

Apis Matinæ

More modoque.-HOR.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMAN.

527.

FIL

LONDON:

W. M'DOWALI, PRINTER, PEMBERTON-ROW,

GOUGH-SQUARE.

CONTENTS.

CHAP. I.

Journey from Rome to Bologna-Cività Castellana; Vale of

Terni; Falls of the Velino; Monte Somma; Spoleto; Vale

of the Clitumnus; Pliny's Description of the Clitumnus; Fo-

ligno; Dress of the Peasantry; Loreto; Casa Santa; Image

of the Virgin; Ancona; Senegaglia; The Metaurus; Fano;

Rimini; Rubicon; Bologna; The Garisenda; The Asinelli;

Madonna di San Luca; Piazza del Gigante; Works of the

Caracceschi; Institute; University; Barbarous Dialect.

Page 1-18

CHAP II:

Bologna, &c., &c.

19-23

CHAP III.

Ferrara-Prison in which Tasso was immured; Ariosto's Tomb;

The Studii; The Orlando Furioso; the Gerusalemme; Ducal

Palace; Descent of the Po

24-40

CHAP IV.

Venice-Topography; Architecture; Piazza and Piazzetta;

Church of St. Mark; Horses of Lysippus; Tower of St.

Mark; Procuratie Nuove; Library; Mint; Ducal Palace;

Prisons; Bridge of Sighs; Arsenals; Rialto; Churches;

Palaces; Paintings of the Ducal Palace; Fall of the Re-

public; Church of St. Paul; Gondolas; Singing of the

Gondoliers

41-63

CHAP V.

On the Origin, Progress, and Corrupt Nature of the Venetian

Government .

64-78

CHAP. VI.

Journey to Milan-Banks of the Brenta: Padua; The Prà della

Valle; The Santo; Church of St. Justina; Hall of Justice;

University: Arquà; Petrarch's Tomb; the Sonnet: Abano;

Plain of Padua; Cultivation of the Vine, &c.; System of

Letting Lands: Vicenza; Palladio's Palaces; La Ragione;

Teatro Olympico: Verona; Amphitheatre of Verona; Tombs

of the Scaligers; Porta Stupa; Pellegrini Chapel; Juliet's

Tomb; Pindemonte; Character of his Poetry; his Descrip-

tion of an English Park: Mantua; its Depopulation; Giulio

Romano; Cathedral; Palazzo del T.; Pietole: Cremona;

View from the Torrazzo: Lodi; Irrigation and Culture of

the Lodesan.

79-110

CHAP VII.

Milan-Cathedral; Shrine of S. Carlo Borromeo; Agrati's St.

Bartholomew; Churches; Dominican Convent; Brera and

Ambrosian Libraries; Piazza Castello; Triumphal Arch;

Evening Promenade: Monza; the Iron Crown 111-122

CHAP VIII.

Parini; the Giorno; Cecisbeism

123-133

CHAP. IX.

Lake of Como; Fiume di Latte; Monte Legnone; Villa Pli-

niana; Lake of Lugano; Lugano; Lago Maggiore; Borro-

mean Islands: Passage of the Simplon; Sublime Scenery:

Conclusion

134-142

APPENDIX.

Florentine School.

Revival of Painting; Cimabue; Giotto

Page 1-13

Florentine Painters from the Time of Giotto, down to the Close

of the Fifteenth Century .

18-41

Origin and Progress of Engraving on Copper and Wood 41-57

General Character of the Florentine School; Leonardo Da

Vinci; M. Angelo; Daniel of Volterra; Fra Bartolommeo;

Andrea del Sarto; Franciabigio; Pontormo; Rosso; Ri-

dolfo Ghirlandaio; Aristotile, &c.

58-99

M. Angelo's Imitators-Vasari; Salviati; Bronzino; Ales-
sandro Allori; Santi Titi; Tempesti

100-109