Excerpt from Cities of Northern Italy, Vol. 1 of 2

Since the first publication of these volumes, almost all the places they describe have been frequently revisited, in order to make the information they contain, especially the accounts of the Italian picture-galleries, as correct as possible up to the present time. But in giving to others what has been at once the companion and employment of many years, I am only too conscious of the imperfections of my work - of how much better descriptions might be given, of the endless amount which remains unsaid. Bearing Italy ever in my heart, I can only hope that others, better fitted, will be led to drink at the great fountain which it is impossible to exhaust, though those who have once been refreshed by it, will always long to return.

The volumes are called 'Cities' of Italy because the chief interest of the country, especially in the northern and central provinces, centres in the towns and their surroundings.

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