Excerpt from Little Cities of Italy Andre Maurel is one of the most deservedly notable men of letters in France. As a novelist, he has tasted the admiration which falls to the lot of women and artists. Such books as Memoires d'un Mari, Le Vieil lard et les Deux Suzannes, and the exquisite Paeme d'a mom will ever be applauded by lovers of the French language. When this psychologist, this historian of the human race, this man of intellect and of feeling is in need of rest from the work of portraying contempo raneous life, he takes a laborious holiday in his beloved Italy, coming back with a volume of impressions as well digested as a thesis under their apparently light treatment. Then he again becomes the alert and imaginative chronicler, whose penetrating glance at society, at the life about him finds daily expression in sparkling pages, sympathetic, caustic, erudite, but never pedantic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.