SKETCHES AND STUDIES IN ITALY AND GREECE
RAVENNA
The Emperor Augustus chose Ravenna for one of his
two naval stations, and in course of time a new city
arose by the sea-shore, which received the name ...
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As he lay dying in a Roman hotel room in April 1893, John Addington Symonds had good reason to be proud of his literary life. He had left behind a long and impressive list of works: translations, biog...
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In his 1878 biography of the English Romantic poet, John Addington Symonds wrote that the young Percy Bysshe Shelley's intellect and aesthetic sensibilities "sustained him at a perilous height above t...
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Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series
John Addington Symonds