Note 71 — Chapter IV · (continued 3)

“Am I in Italy? Is this the Mincius? Are those the distant turrets of Verona? And shall I sup where Juliet at the Masque Saw her loved Montague, and now sleeps by him? Such questions hourly do I ask myself; And not a stone in a crossway inscribed ‘To Mantua,’ ‘To Ferrara,’ but excites Surprise, and doubt, and self-congratulation.”

Alas, after a few short months, spent even in the scenes dearest to history, we can feel thus no more.

72 I have always called this church, in the text, simply “St. John and Paul,” not Sts. John and Paul, just as the Venetians say San Giovanni e Paolo, and not Santi G., &c.