ROMA BEATA

Letters from the Eternal City
BY
MAUD HOWE
AUTHOR OF “A NEWPORT AQUARELLE,” “THE SAN ROSARIO RANCH,”
“MAMMON,” “PHILLIDA,” “LAURA BRIDGMAN,” ETC.
With Illustrations from Drawings by John Elliott
and from Photographs
BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1909
Copyright, 1903, 1904,
By J. B. Lippincott & Company.
Copyright, 1904,
By The Century Co.
Copyright, 1904,
By America Company.
Copyright, 1904,
By The Outlook Company.
Copyright, 1904,
By Little, Brown, and Company.
All rights reserved
Printers
S. J. Parkhill & Co., Boston, U. S. A.
To My Sister
LAURA E. RICHARDS

CONTENTS

Page
[I.][Looking for a Home][1]
[II.][ Cadenabbia—Woerishoven—Pfarrer Sebastian Kneipp][31]
[III.][A Visit to Queen Margaret][50]
[IV.][A Presentation to Leo the Thirteenth][76]
[V.][In the Abruzzi Mountains][97]
[VI.][Scanno][119]
[VII.][Viareggio—Lucca—Return to Rome][142]
[VIII.][Roman Codgers and Solitaries][163]
[IX.][Black Magic and White—Witch’s Night][187]
[X.][Ischia][215]
[XI.][Old and New Rome—Palestrina][239]
[XII.][The Anno Santo][264]
[XIII.][The Queen’s Visit][292]
[XIV.][Strawberries of Nemi][314]
[XV.][The King is Dead. Long live the King][338]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Page
[Terrace of the Palazzo Rusticucci][Frontispiece]
From a pencil drawing in the Collection of Miss Mabel Norman
[The Appian Way][30]
From a photograph
[The Madonna of St. Agostino][72]
From a photograph
[The Pincian Gate and Wall of Rome][76]
From a photograph
[Roccaraso][98]
From a pencil drawing
[Marta, a Vestal of the Abruzzi][107]
From a pencil drawing in the Collection of Mrs. Whitman
[The Tiber, at the Ponte Nomantana][158]
From a photograph
[A Lost Love][202]
From a red chalk drawing in the Collection of Mr. Thomas W. Lawson
[Ischia][216]
From a photograph
[The Lady K.][250]
From a red chalk drawing in the Collection of Mr. Thomas W. Lawson
[Dante][311]
From a pastel drawing in the Collection of Mrs. David Kimball
[The Palace of the Orsini at Nemi][318]
From a photograph