Brick and Marble in the Middle Ages: Notes of Tours in the North of Italy

CHAPTER I.

“Yet waft me from the harbour-mouth, Wild wind! I seek a warmer sky, And I will see before I die The palms and temples of the South.” _Tennyson._

Routes to Italy--Paris--Strasburg--Rouffach--Basel.

An architectural tour in Italy seems to afford about as much prospect of pleasure and information combined as any which it is possible for an English student to tak...