Love strangling the Hared of the Two Houses by Thomas Nast, in Charles Dickens's Pictures from Italy, Sketches, and American Notes, eighth chapter, "By Verona, Mantua, and Milan, across The Pass of the Simplon into Switzerland," 41. Wood-engraving, ¾ by 1 ½ inches wide (2 cm high by 4 cm wide), vignetted.
Passage Complemented: Nast's Whimsical Interpolation
In the midst of it, in the Piazza di Brá — a spirit of old time among the familiar realities of the passing hour — is the great Roman Amphitheatre. So well preserved, and carefully maintained, that every row of seats is there, unbroken. Over certain of the arches, the old Roman numerals may yet be seen; and there are corridors, and staircases, and subterranean passages for beasts, and winding ways, above ground and below, as when the fierce thousands hurried in and out, intent upon the bloody shows of the arena. Nestling in some of the shadows and hollow places of the walls, now, are smiths with their forges, and a few small dealers of one kind or other; and there are green weeds, and leaves, and grass, upon the parapet. But little else is greatly changed. [Chapter 8, "By Verona, Mantua, and Milan, across The Pass of the Simplon into Switzerland," 41]
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Bibliography
Dickens, Charles. Chapter 8, "By Verona, Mantua, and Milan, across The Pass of the Simplon into Switzerland." Pictures from Italy, Sketches by Boz, and American Notes. Illustrated by A. B. Frost and Thomas Nast. The Household Edition. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1877. 41-47.
_______. Pictures from Italy and American Notes. Illustrated by A. B. Frost and Gordon Thomson. London: Chapman and Hall, 1880. 1-381.
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