Lanterna Rally

Author: Gabriel Faure

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-25

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9781330173510

Excerpt from Wanderings in Italy Among the innumerable volumes devoted to Italy none has had more appreciative recognition in France than M. Gabriel Faure's Heures d'Italie. No writer has more delicately suggested the enchantment of the Latin land and the spell it casts over the traveller, and none takes us more persuasively off the beaten track to lead us to sanctuaries of art and beauty so little known to the ordinary tourist as Castelfranco, Pieve di Cadore and Saronno. M. Faure is an ideal guide for the educated pilgrim. He has a genuine love of nature and a painter's eye for scenery. But he does not merely evoke the picturesque. His wide reading and artistic culture are evident on every page, and the happy allusion, the apt quotation and the romantic incident perpetually stimulate the reader. Now when we may hope once more to visit the delightful land an English version of this distinguished book, completed by notes on the terra redenta, should be welcome. 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 technology 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.