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Pictures from Italy

by Charles Dickens

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Italy -- Description and travelNovelists, English -- 19th century -- BiographyDickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Travel -- Italy

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  1. 01Front matter~1 min
  2. 02The Reader’s Passport~6 min
  3. 03GOING THROUGH FRANCE~20 min
  4. 04LYONS, THE RHONE, AND THE GOBLIN OF AVIGNON~23 min
  5. 05AVIGNON TO GENOA~13 min
  6. 06GENOA AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD — part 1~24 min
  7. 07GENOA AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD — part 2~25 min
  8. 08GENOA AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD — part 3~25 min
  9. 09GENOA AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD — part 4~8 min
  10. 10TO PARMA, MODENA, AND BOLOGNA~23 min
  11. 11THROUGH BOLOGNA AND FERRARA~15 min
  12. 12AN ITALIAN DREAM~21 min
  13. 13BY VERONA, MANTUA, AND MILAN, ACROSS THE PASS OF THE SIMPLON INTO SWITZERLAND — part 1~24 min
  14. 14BY VERONA, MANTUA, AND MILAN, ACROSS THE PASS OF THE SIMPLON INTO SWITZERLAND — part 2~16 min
  15. 15TO ROME BY PISA AND SIENA — part 1~24 min
  16. 16TO ROME BY PISA AND SIENA — part 2~12 min
  17. 17ROME — part 1~22 min
  18. 18ROME — part 2~25 min
  19. 19ROME — part 3~25 min
  20. 20ROME — part 4~25 min
  21. 21ROME — part 5~23 min
  22. 22A RAPID DIORAMA — part 1~25 min
  23. 23A RAPID DIORAMA — part 2~25 min
  24. 24A RAPID DIORAMA — part 3~16 min

A few words to begin

IF the readers of this volume will be so kind as to take their credentials for the different places which are the subject of its author’s reminiscences, from the Author himself, perhaps they may visit them, in fancy, the more agreeably, and with a better understanding of what they are to expect. Many books have been written upon Italy, affording many means of studying the history of that interesting country, and the innumerable associations entwined about it. I make but little reference to that stock of information; not at all regarding it as a necessary consequence of my having had recourse to the storehouse for my own benefit, that I should reproduce its easily accessible contents before the eyes of my readers.

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