._)

_ 5 La Nazione_, April 24, 1906.

_ 6 The Decameron._ Novel IV. of the Second Day.

_ 7 The Decameron_--Novel I, of the Fourth Day.

8 F. Lenormant: _A travers l'Apulie et la Lucanie_.

9 W. J. A. Stamer: _Dolce Napoli_.

10 For an able defence of the Emperor Tiberius, the reader is referred
to Mr J. C. Tarver's _Tiberius the Tyrant_, chap. xviii.

11 W. J. A. Stamer: _Dolce Napoli_.

12 A portion of this chapter has already appeared in an article by the
Author, entitled _The Island of Ischia_, in the _Westminster
Review_, December 1905.

13 W. J. A. Stamer: _Dolce Napoli_.

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE

The caption of two images (frontispiece, page 288) has been supplied from
the List of Images.

The following obvious typographical errors have been corrected:

page xi, "Republiques" changed to "Republiques"
page 55, "castastrophe" changed to "catastrophe"
page 90, quote mark added after "vendemmia?"
page 158, footnote, italics added to "The Decameron", removed from
"Novel IV. of the Second Day". (Other inconsistencies between the
two citations of the _Decameron_ were not changed.)
page 159, "mosiac" changed to "mosaic"
page 189, "gradully" changed to "gradually"
page 206, "Paestum" changed to "Paestum" (twice)
page 212, "wheron" changed to "whereon"
page 238, "circomstane" changed to "circomstance"
page 241, double "the" removed
page 275, "costing" changed to "coasting"
page 300, "maledicton" changed to "malediction"
page 301, "then" changed to "than"
page 311, "aud" changed to "and"

In the Index, the following words have been changed to the spelling used
in the main text:

"Baiae" (was: "Baiae")
"Caecilius Jucundus" (was: "Caecilius")
"Cumae" (was: "Cumae")
"Hohenstaufen" (was: "Hohenstauffen")
"Matteucci" (was: "Mateucci")
"Paestum" (was: "Paestum")
"Pimentel" (was: "Pimental")
"Rufolo, Niccolo" (was: "Nicolo")
"Sannazzaro" (was: "Sannazaro")
"Stabiae" (was: "Stabiae")
"Staurachios" (was: "Straurachios")
"Thermae of Nero" (was: "Thermae")
"William Bras-de-Fer" (was: "Bras de Fer")
"Zoppo, Carlo il" (was: "Zoppo, Carlo Il")

Apart from the index and two occurrences of "Paestum" in the main text, all
"ae" ligatures have been maintaine