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Mare Nostrum (Our Sea)

CHAPTER IV
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The English are just." And in order to soothe his impatience he went ashore.
Compared with other celebrated Italian cities, Naples did not appear to him of much importance.

Its true beauty was its immense gulf between hills of orange trees and pines, with a second frame of mountains one of which outlined upon the azure heavens its eternal crest of volcanic vapors.
The town did not abound in famous edifices.

The monarchs of Naples had generally been foreigners who had resided far away and had governed through their delegates.

The best streets, the palaces, the monumental fountain, had come from the Spanish viceroys.

A sovereign of mixed origin, Charles the III, Castilian by birth and Neapolitan at heart, had done the most for the city.


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