Excerpt from Italy, Vol. 1: Handbook for Travellers; Northern Italy The objects of the Handbook for Italy, which consists of three volumes, each complete in itself, are to supply the trav eller with some information regarding the culture and art of the people he is about to visit, as well as regarding the nat ural features of the country, to render him as independent as possible of the services of guides and valets-de-place, to pro tect him against extortion, and in every way to aid him in deriving enjoyment and instruction from his tour in one of the most fascinating countries in the world. The Handbook will also, it is hoped, be the means of saving the traveller many a trial of temper; for there is probably country in Europe where the patience is more severely taxed than in some parts of Italy. The Handbook is founded on the Editor's personal ac quaintance with the places described, most of which he has repeatedly and carefully explored. As, however, changes are constantly taking place, he will highly appreciate any communications with which travellers may kindly favour him, if the result of their own observation. The information already received from numerous correspondents, which he gratefully ackwledges, has in many cases proved most serviceable. The present volume, corresponding to the eleventh German edition, has, like its predecessor, been thoroughly revised and considerably augmented. Its contents have been divided into groups of routes arranged historically and geographically (piedmont, Ligurt'a, Lombardy, Venett'a, The Emilia, and Tuscany), each group being provided with a prefatory outline of the history of the district. Each section is also prefaced with a list of the routes it contains, and may be removed from the volume and used separately if desired. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.