THE INNOCENTS ABROAD
Part 3, Chapters 21 to 30
by Mark Twain
THE INNOCENTS ABROAD
by Mark Twain
[From an 1869--1st Edition]
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER XXI.
The Pretty Lago di Lecco--A Carriage Drive in the Country--AstonishingSociability in a Coachman--Sleepy Land--Bloody Shrines--The Heart andHome of Priestcraft--A Thrilling Mediaeval Romance--The Birthplace ofHarlequin--Approaching Venice
CHAPTER XXII.
Night in Venice--The "Gay Gondolier"--The Grand Fete byMoonlight--The Notable Sights of Venice--The Mother of the Republics Desolate
CHAPTER XXIII.
The Famous Gondola--The Gondola in an Unromantic Aspect--The Great Squareof St. Mark and the Winged Lion--Snobs, at Home and Abroad--Sepulchres ofthe Great Dead--A Tilt at the "Old Masters"--A ContrabandGuide--The Conspiracy--Moving Again
CHAPTER XXIV.
Down Through Italy by Rail--Idling in Florence--Dante and Galileo--AnUngrateful City--Dazzling Generosity--Wonderful Mosaics--The HistoricalArno--Lost Again--Found Again, but no Fatted Calf Ready--The LeaningTower of Pisa--The Ancient Duomo--The Old Original First Pendulum thatEver Swung--An Enchanting Echo--A New Holy Sepulchre--A Relic ofAntiquity--A Fallen Republic--At Leghorn--At Home Again, and Satisfied,on Board the Ship--Our Vessel an Object of Grave Suspicion--GaribaldiVisited--Threats of Quarantine
CHAPTER XXV.
The Works of Bankruptcy--Railway Grandeur--How to Fill an EmptyTreasury--The Sumptuousness of Mother Church--EcclesiasticalSplendor--Magni