CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| Of Beauty, Faith, and Death: A Rhapsody by way of Prelude | [1] |
| Fantasia Napolitana: Being a Reverie of Aquariums, Museums, and Dead Christs | [17] |
| The Carpenter’s Wife: a Capriccio | [43] |
| The Earth the Centre of the Universe: or the Absurdity of Astronomy | [77] |
| Of Autocosms without Facts: or the Emptiness of Religions | [84] |
| Of Facts without Autocosms: or the Irrelevancy of Science | [104] |
| Of Facts with Alien Autocosms: or the Futility of Culture | [120] |
| St. Francis: or the Irony of Institutions | [137] |
| The Gay Doges: or the Failure of Society and the Impossibility of Socialism | [159] |
| The Superman of Letters: or the Hypocrisy of Politics | [172] |
| Lucrezia Borgia: or the Myth of History | [186] |
| Sicily and the Albergo Samuele Butler: or the Fiction of Chronology | [195] |
| Intermezzo | [205] |
| Lachrymæ Rerum at Mantua: with a Denunciation of D’Annunzio | [214] |
| Of Dead Sublimities, Serene Magnificences, and Gagged Poets | [227] |
| Variations on a Theme | [241] |
| High Art and Low | [249] |
| An Excursion into the Grotesque: with a Glance at old Maps and Modern Fallacies | [259] |
| An Excursion into Heaven and Hell: with a Depreciation of Dante | [280] |
| St. Giulia and Female Suffrage | [298] |
| Icy Italy: with Venice Rising from the Sea | [307] |
| The Dying Carnival | [315] |
| Napoleon and Byron in Italy: or Letters and Action | [320] |
| The Consolations of Phlebotomy: A Paradox at Pavia | [331] |
| Risorgimento: with some Remarks on San Marino and the Millennium | [337] |
[Transcriber’s Notes] can be found at the end of this eBook.