After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 524 pages of information about After Waterloo.

After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 524 pages of information about After Waterloo.

Ferrara: 
 Hugo and Parisina; the Po; relics of Ariosto;
 MSS of Ariosto, Tasso, Guarini;
 Hospital of St Anna. 
Firmin:  acting of. 
Fleurus:  Prussian army defeated at. 
Florence:  the Duomo;
 Battisterio; il Sasso di Dante; theatres; public buildings; statues;
 Gallery;
 Venus; de Medici; paintings and sculpture; portraits of sovereigns;
 Roman antiquities; remarkable imitations in wax of human anatomy;
 Ponte Vecchio; street paving; thickness of walls of houses;
 Palazzo Pitti;
 Canova’s Venus;
 Boboli Gardens;
 Cascino; beauty of the women;
 Pegasus;
 Italian fondness for gaudy colours;
 Canova’s monument to Alfieri;
 Church of Santa Croce; the Florentine Westminster Abbey; academies;
 La Crusca;
 English travellers;
 Lord Dillon; story illustrating Florentine life. 
Fouche:  complains of the conduct of the Allies. 
Frankfort: 
 Venus Vulgivaga;
 Jews; cathedral; inauguration of Roman Caesars in the Roemer; the Golden Bull; portraits of the Emperors; theatre; adaptation of German language to music; political opinion in; dislike to Austria. 
French Revolution:  worst excesses of, surpassed.

Galileo:  monument erected to, in church of Santa Croce. 
Gauthier, M.:  exiled to Lausanne. 
Geneva:  scenery,
 Fort de l’Ecluse; arcades;
 J.J.  Rousseau;
 Calvin;
 Servetus; sentiments of Genevese towards Napoleon and the Revolution; literary aptitude of Genevese; attachment to their country; the women;
 French refugees refused an asylum in; admitted into Helvetic Confederation. 
Genoa:  the women of, peculiarities of the streets; ducal palace;
 Columbus; bridge of Carignano; churches. 
Georges, Mlle:  fine acting of, her rendering of “Agrippina”; plays the part of “Clytemnestra,” supported by her sister as “Iphigenie”. 
Ghent:  Court of Louis XVIII at. 
Girolamo, Signor:  anecdote of. 
Godesberg:  interesting ruins near. 
Granet:  remarkable pictures by. 
Grassini:  singing of. 
Grillparzer, author of the tragedy “Sappho”. 
Grotto of Pausilippo. 
Grotto del Cane. 
Guerin:  pictures by, in Palais du Luxembourg. 
Guillotine, the.

Helvetic Confederation:  guaranteed by the Allied Powers in 1814,
 Geneva admitted into. 
Herculaneum. 
Hockheim; Rhenish wines. 
Holland:  feeling towards the House of Orange, regret at loss of Cape of Good Hope and Ceylon. 
Hougoumont:  Bulow and Blucher march to the assistance of the English at
      devastation of. 
Hulin, General:  cashiers a Prussian officer in the French service.

India:  Frye’s travels in. 
Innspruck:  the Hofkirche, statues of kings and princes connected with Maximilian I.

Kleber:  statue of, in Palais du Luxembourg. 
Klingmann, Philipp:  plot of his tragedy “Faust”.

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