CONTENTS. CHAPTER XXI. PAGE VENICE. THE APPROACH I CHAPTER XXII. s. MARKS AND ITS SURROUNDINGS 13 CHAPTER XXIII. THE GRAND CANAL 46 CHAPTER XXIV. SOUTH-EASTERN VENICE 80 CHAPTER XXV. NORTH-EASTERN VENICE IOI CHAPTER XXVI. WESTERN VENICE 115 CHAPTER XXVII. THE GIUDECCA AND IL REDENTORE, S. GIORGIO, THE ARMENIAN CONVENT, S. ELENA, AND THE LIDO . 134 CHAPTER XXVIII. CHIOGGIA 140 CHAPTER XXIX. MURANO AND TORCELLO 145 CHAPTER XXX. TREVISO, UDINE, AND AQUILEJA 157 CHAPTER XXXI. FERRARA vi CONTENTS. CHAPTER XXXII. PAGE PIACENZA l85 CHAPTER XXXIII. PARMA 204 CHAPTER XXXIV REGGIO AND MODENA 23 CHAPTER XXXV. BOLOGNA 246 CHAPTER XXXVI. RAVENNA 295 CHAPTER XXXVII. FAENZA AND FORLI 353 CHAPTER XXXVIII. RIMINI AND S. MARINO 363 CHAPTER XXXIX. PESARO AND FANO 385 CHAPTER XL. ANCONA 391 CHAPTER XLL LORETO AND THE MARCHE 4OI CHAPTER XLII. URBINO 420 CHAPTER XLIII. GUBBIO 432 CHAPTER XLIV. WSA 440 CHAPTER XLV. VOLTERRA . 483 CHAPTER XLVL LUCCA 490 PISTOIA AND PRATO , CHAPTER XLVU. 507 VE CHAPTER XXI. VENICE. THE APPROACH. It is I hr. by rail from Padua to Venice 4 frs. 50 c. 3 frs. 25 c. 2 frs. 30 c. The station is about an hour in a gondola from the Piazza S.Marco, which is the centre of Venetian life. A gondola with one gondolier costs i fr., each piece of luggage 20 c. extra. Hotels. New York, a large new hotel well situated near the entrance of the Grand Canal Europa, very good Bretagna, all these are in the same situation. Vittoria, on one of the side canals, good, but with terrible smells. Danieli, Riva degli Schiavoni, old-fashioned. Inghil- terra, Riva degli Schiavoni, a small but very comfortable house, pleasant and sunny in winter and spring, hot in summer. Restaurant. Quadri, Piazza S. Marco right, excellent for lunch- eons if you are in a hotel, for everything if in lodgings. Caffe. Florian left, Piazza S. Marco. Quadri right. Gondolas the cabs of Venice cost with one gondolier and four passengers i fr. the first hour, and fr. for each hour afterwards. For the whole day 5 frs. English Church. Close to the Accademia, on the right Photographer celebrated for portraits Ant. Sorgato, 4674 Cam- piello del Vina S. Zaccaria, behind Hotel dAngleterre. Venetian Jewellery. The street near the Ponte di Rialto, left bank. It should be known that almost everything bought in the Piazza S. Marco costs treble the price asked in the Frezzaria and other less fashion- able parts of the town. Wood Sculpture. Travellers should visit the Atelier 2795 Canal Grande of Valentino Besarel. It is only in Italy that you find this interesting type of the untaught artist of unerring taste, whose art is the sole object and interest of his life. He is a native of Cadore, where his ancestors were carvers ofwood in Titians time. VOL. II. I