ILLUSTRATIONS

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[On the Appian Way][Frontispiece in Color]
[The Grand Canal, Venice][2]
[Children feeding Pigeons in the Piazza of St. Mark, Venice][11]
[Gateway of San Sebastian, Rome][68]
[Ruins of the Claudian Aqueduct][78]
[The Colosseum at Rome][88]
[The boys of Naples eating macaroni][99]
[Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius][103]
["The army of boys bearing baskets of earth from the excavations of Pompeii"][106]

RAFAEL IN ITALY

CHAPTER I

AN EVENING IN VENICE

It was a glorious summer evening. The moon, rising over the city of Venice, shone down on towers and domes and marble palaces, and made a golden path in the rippling waters of the lagoon.