ADVERTISEMENT.

The respect due to public taste requires of me an apology for offering my Volumes, after the numerous works on Italy sent forth by persons of genius, erudition, and research.

The manuscript of my pages was written in Italy, and intended originally for the perusal of private friends only: recent circumstances have decided me to give them publicity. I wove by night the materials collected in the day: they were old, and snatched in haste from the store-house of antiquity; but if I have sent through all the warp a golden wire drawn from the inexhaustible treasures of creation and the written Word, my work may yet possess some value, and suit the evening tent of the Christian traveller, who always possesses this advantage over others — that, when earthly objects fade,

“ He sends his hopes on high, looks up,

And, reaching forth his sickle, reaps the fields of heaven ;
And plucks the clusters from the vine of God.”

PROTESTANT VIGILS;

Evening Records

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A JOURNEY IN ITALY,

IN THE

YEARS 1826 AND 1827.

BY HARRIET MORTON.

Si ! Gesù è la luce
Che il Popolo smarito;
Il sotto rischiard : Questo è la Verga
Che in fonte di salute
Apre i macigni : I Sacerdote é Questo
Fra la vita e la morte
Pietoso Mediator!

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY R. B. SEELEY, AND W. BURNSIDE ;
AND SOLD BY LA, SEELEY AND SONS, FLEET-STREKT, AND

G. WILSON, ESSEX-STREET, STRAND.

LONDON: Printed hv WILLIAM CLOWES,

Stamford Street.

TO HER GRACE

THE DUCHESS OF BEAUFORT,

THE FOLLOWING PAGES

WITH HER GRACE'S PERMISSION,

MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,

BY

THE AUTHOR.