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OUR ITALY

BY CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER

_Author of Their Pilgrimage, Studies in the South and West, A Little
Journey in the World... With Many Illustrations_


[Illustration]

_NEW YORK_
_HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE_


Copyright, 1891, by HARPER & BROTHERS.


_All rights reserved._




CONTENTS.


CHAP.                                                                 PAGE

I. HOW OUR ITALY IS MADE                                                 1

II. OUR CLIMATIC AND COMMERCIAL MEDITERRANEAN                           10

III. EARLY VICISSITUDES.--PRODUCTIONS.--SANITARY CLIMATE                24

IV. THE WINTER OF OUR CONTENT                                           42

V. HEALTH AND LONGEVITY                                                 52

VI. IS RESIDENCE HERE AGREEABLE?                                        65

VII. THE WINTER ON THE COAST                                            72

VIII. THE GENERAL OUTLOOK.--LAND AND PRICES                             90

IX. THE ADVANTAGES OF IRRIGATION                                        99

X. THE CHANCE FOR LABORERS AND SMALL FARMERS                           107

XI. SOME DETAILS OF THE WONDERFUL DEVELOPMENT                          114

XII. HOW THE FRUIT PERILS WERE MET.--FURTHER DETAILS OF LOCALITIES     128

XIII. THE ADVANCE OF CULTIVATION SOUTHWARD                             140

XIV. A LAND OF AGREE