...winter, and he always regarded the time of his sojourn there as well chosen. He afterwards referred to these days as the happiest of his whole European journey. Thence he went, by way of Siena, to Florence , where he passed a fortnight; and then with a vetturino to Bologna, Ferrara, Rovigo, Padua, and across the plains of Lombardy alone, in a light wagon with a single horse, harnessed with ropes, old l...