Excerpt from New Italy The English love Italy, have always loved her indeed, ever since that far-away day when Chaucer visited her and returned to his native country fired with enthusiasm for what he called 'this earthly Paradise with its blue skies and flowery countryside. They have loved her alike in the golden days of the Renaissance and in the sad though glorious days of the Risorgimento; they have revered her artists and her exiled patriots, but they have too often loved her without under standing her. 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.