The Italian Lakes: Being the Record of Pilgrimages to Familiar and Unfamiliar Places of the 'Lakes of Azure, Lakes of Leisure,' Together with a Description of Their Quaint Towns and Villa Gardens and the Treasures of Their Art and History

viii, 362 pp. Illustrated. CONTENTS: Lakes of Azure; The Making of the Lakes; Pallanza; The Borromean Islands: Isola, Bella, Isola Dei Pescatori, Isola Madre, Isola San Giovanni; Lower Lago Maggiore: Arona, Carlo Borromeo, From Arona to Stresa, Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, From Baveno to Laveno; Upper Lago Maggiore: The Lake of Locarno; Bernardino Luini; The Three Liberators: Garibaldi, Mazzini, and Cavour; Monte Motterone; Rivera and Lago D'Orta; Over the Colma to Varallo: Chestnut Forests, Varallo, Gaudenzio Ferrari, Sacro Monte, Fobello and Beyond; Lake Lugano; Monte Generoso; Varese, Lake and City; The City of Como; Some Como Celebrities: Pliny the Elder, Pliny the Younger, Alessandro Volta; Silkworms and Silk-Looms; The Costume of the Briana; Up the Lake of Como; The Bay of Bellagio: Bellagio, Tremezzo, Villa Carlotta, Cadenabbia and Menaggio, Varenna; From Chiavenna to Lecco; The Diligence; Two Subalpine Scholars: Alessandro Manzoni and Antonio Stoppani; Bergamo; Donizetti and the Seven Notes; Lago D'Isea and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu; Brescia: Arnold of Brescia, Bayard Sans Peur et Sans Reproche; Lake Garda--The Western Shore from Desenzano to Riva: Catullus and the Peninsula of Sermione, Salo, the Riviera (Gardone - Gargnano), the Cliffs of Tremosine; Riva; Goethe on Lake Garda; The Eastern Shore of Lake Garda and the Tower of San Martino (Solferino); Environs and Excursions; Giovanni Segantini (1858-99); Indx.