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Roman Holidays, and Others

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Roman Holidays, and Others is a book by William Dean Howells. The contents list names, among others, Up and Down Madeira, Ashore at Genoa, Naples and Her Joyful Noise and Pompeii Revisited. Under Roman Holidays the contents list gives, among others, Hotels, Pensions, and Apartments, A Praise of New Rome and The Colosseum and the Forum.

The writer says there was much to please a somewhat peculiar taste in the visit to the Farnesina, and that the gateman, being an Italian official, had not been at the gate when they arrived but came running and smiling from his gossip with the door-keeper of the casino. The text says that Genoa velvet had to be sold abroad for the corruption of the outside world, and that this is said to be the reason why there were so many palaces built in Genoa in the days of the republic. The text adds that people who did not wish to figure in that hall of fame put their surplus into the immense and often ugly edifices which we still see ministering to their pride in the wide and narrow streets of the city.

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William Dean Howells (1837 to 1920) was one of the most influential American men of letters of his era, an editor, critic, and prolific novelist. He championed literary realism, supported writers like Mark Twain, and used his own fiction to examine money, class, and conscience in American society.

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