LONDON T. RICHARDS, 37, OREAT QUEEN STREET.

OR, COURTS, COURTIERS, CHURCHMEN,

GARIBALDIANS, LAWYERS

AND BRIGANDS,

AT HOME AND ABROAD.

BY J. RICHARD DIGBY BESTE, ESQ.

AUTHOR OF THE WABASH," MODERN SOCIETY IN ROME,"

ETC., ETC.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

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LONDON:

CHAPMAN & HALL, 193, PICCADILLY.

1870.

203. e. 170.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME THE SECOND.

CHAPTER I.

ALBANO.

Ardea.-Map of the Campagna.-Alba Longa.—The

Lake.-The Lake of Nemi.-Monte Cavo.-The

Heroine of MODERN SOCIETY.-Ariccia.-Pigs and

Little Girls. Our Villa.-Illness.--Resignation.-

The Last Sacraments.--A Happy Dream.-A Sad

Letter. - A Double Death. Unhealthiness of

Albano.

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CHAPTER II.

PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.

The

Palazzo Pamphilj Doria.--Italian domestic Architecture.

-A grand Fresco destroyed.- Despotism.

Prince of Wales.-Morality and royalty.-Sad fore-

bodings.- San Michele.- Lunatic asylum.- The

Good Shepherd.-The Inquisition.-A heretic.—

Rumours of war.-Illuminations.-Pio Nono and

Murat.

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CHAPTER III.

ROMAN TRIBUNALS.

System of Taxation.-Making a corn mill.-Taxes on

grinding.-Patronage.-A secret family history.

A clandestine marriage.-How dissolved.-Torture.

Sentence of the court.- Sensational novels.-

Blasphemous parodies.

CHAPTER IV.

THE JESUITS' COLLEGE.

St. Aloysius. A superstition.-A sensible bishop.-

Convinced.-Letters to Heaven.-Another curious

coincidence. Superstition of the author.-His folly.

Climate of Rome.- Extracts from Journal.-

Climates of Italy and England.-Passports.-An

enemy at Court.

CHAPTER V.

ARRIVAL AT NAPLES.

Voyage to Naples.-Bathing.-Choosing a house.-Out-

ward and visible signs.-A sensible finance minister.

Sensible Custom-house officers.

appointment to Naples.

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CHAPTER VI.

SICKENING.

Recapitulation.-Arrival at Naples.-Dances on board

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ship.--Entrance of Francis II and Te Deum.-

Superstitions. My Journal. Symptoms. Ros-

kelly, the impostor. Dreams. An anomaly.-

Hanging a doctor.

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