Excerpt from The Complete Works of Theophile Gautier, Vol. 4: Travels in Italy; Fortunio; One of Cleopatra's Nights; King Candaules F Spain, as stated in the Introduction to Travels in Spain, always attracted the French mind, so did Italy. It did more it attracted the Frenchman himself and induced him to travel. 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.