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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Other Books in This Series
Illuminations for the Abbess of Castro
Contents
I. Stendhal and Italy
A day in Florence—Selection from Stendhal’s On Love (1822)
The Duchessa meets a brigand—Selection from Chapter 21 of Stendhal’s The Charterhouse of Parma (1839)
II. On Stendhal
Illustration: Drawing of Stendhal dancing, by Alfred du Musset
“A little pot-bellied man with a spiteful smile …” —Selection from “A Sentimental Education: Henry Beyle-Stendhal,” an essay by James Huneker (1909)
III. Italian Brigandage
Illustration: Travelers attacked by brigands (circa 1670)
The robber of the Abruzzi—Selection from The Lives and Exploits of Bandits and Robbers in All Parts of the World by Charles MacFarlane (1833)
Twenty centuries of brigandage—Selection from Brigandage in Southern Italy by David Hilton Wheeler (1864)
“I killed a man!”—Selection from Brigand Life in Italy: A History of Bourbonist Reaction by Count Maffei (1865)
Illustration—Soldier with Arquebus
Portable firearms and their projectiles—Selection from Gunshot Injuries, Their History, Characteristic Features, Complications, and General Treatment by Sir Thomas Longmore (1895)
Illustration—Arquebuses
Musket and arquebus—Selection from A History of Modern Europe by Merrick Whitcomb (1903)
IV. Complementary Reading
Illustration: The Medici family, by Benozzo Gozzoli (circa 1459)
Concerning the way in which princes should keep faith—Selection from Niccolò Macchiavelli’s The Prince (1532)
Illustration: Abbess Lucrezia Agliardi Vertova by Giovanni Battista Moroni (circa 1556)
“The awful Lady Abbess …”—Selection from Chapter VIII and Chapter IX of The Abbess by Frances Milton Trollope (1833)
The buried-alive convent—Selection from The “Black Convent” Slave: The Climax of Nunnery Exposures: Awful Disclosures by Ford Hendrickson (1914)
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