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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 20 Italy .—May September , 1839 28 . (search)
Chapter 20: Italy.—May to September, 1839.—Age, 28.
Leaving Paris April 20, and going by way of Lyons, Sumner embarked at Marseilles, May 3, by steamer for Naples.
On the route he visited Genoa,
See his description of Genoa, July 4, 1845, in The True Grandeur of Nations: She still sits in queenly pride as she sat then,—her mural crown studded with towers; her churches rich with marble floors and rarest pictures; her palaces of ancient doges and admirals yet spared by the hand of Time; her close streets thronged by a hundred thousand inhabitants,—at the foot of the Apennines as they approach the blue and tideless waters of the Mediterranean Sea, leaning her back against their strong mountain-sides, overshadowed by the foliage of the fig-tree and the olive, while the orange and the lemon with pleasant perfume scent the air where reigns perpetual spring.
Who can contemplate such a city without delight?—Works, Vol.
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