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Title: Italy, the Magic Land

Author: Lilian Whiting

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Language: English

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[Illustration: _Temple, Taormina_]

ITALY

THE MAGIC LAND

BY

LILIAN WHITING

AUTHOR OF "THE FLORENCE OF LANDOR," "THE LAND OF
ENCHANTMENT," "THE WORLD BEAUTIFUL," ETC.

"And, under many a yellow star,
We dropped into the Magic Land!"

_Illustrated from Photographs_

BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1907

_Copyright, 1907_,

BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

_All rights reserved_

Published November, 1907

THE GRIFFITH-STILLINGS PRESS, BOSTON, U.S.A.

TO
ELLA

(MRS. FRANKLIN SIMMONS)

WHOSE EARTHLY FORM REPOSES IN THE BEAUTIFUL ROMAN CEMETERY,
WHERE POETIC ASSOCIATIONS WITH KEATS AND SHELLEY HAUNT
THE AIR,--UNDER THE SCULPTURED "ANGEL OF THE RESURRECTION,"
WITH ITS MAJESTIC SYMBOLISM OF THE
TRIUMPH OF IMMORTALITY,--BUT WHOSE RADIANT
PRESENCE STILL TRANSFIGURES THE LIFE THAT
HELD HER IN IMMORTAL DEVOTION,--
THESE PAGES ARE INSCRIBED,

WITH THE UNFORGETTING LOVE OF

LILIAN WHITING.

ROME, ITALY, May Days, 1907.

"_Nor Life is ever lord of Death,
And Love can never lose its own._"

PREFATORY NOTE

That Florence, the "Flower City," receives only a passing allusion in
this record of various impressions that gleam and glow through the days
after several visits to the Magic Land, is due to the fact that in a
previous volume by the writer--one entitled "The Florence of
Landor"--the lovely Tuscan town with its art, its ineffable beauty, and
its choice social life, formed the subject matter of that volume. Any
attempt to portray Florence in the present