Entered according to the act of congress, in the year 1835, by KEY & BIDDLE, in the clerk's office of the district court of the eastern district of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: T. K. Collins & Co., Printers, The following pages comprise leaves from a Journal in Italy, in 1833-4, with Sketches and Essays, illustrative of the local and social features of that interesting country. The unexpected favour with which the specimens that have appeared in literary journals were received, has induced a revision and presentation of them, in the form of a volume. Several articles calculated to render the design more complete, have been added. Should this little work, the first attempt of the kind on the part of the writer to interest the public, serve to revive the impressions of one who has sojourned in the regions of which it speaks, or, pleasingly inform one who is precluded from beholding them; especially should it tend, in the least degree, to awaken in any mind an interest and faith in humanity as there existent, or its perusal enliven an irksome, or beguile a painful hour, the author will feel that the time devoted to its production has not been spent in vain. ERRATA. Page 49, fifth line from top, for ‘Angelos' read Angelo. 54, first line, for Thorwaldson' read Thorwaldsen. 75, third line from bottom, for Capitol of the rotunda' read rotunda of the Capitol. |