Assisi (instead of Assisium) have been used in one sketch and
Laurentum, Tusculum and Tibur in another. The modern name that least
suggests its original is that of the river Adige. The Latin Atesia
would destroy the reader's sense of familiarity with Verona.

My thanks are due to Professor M. S. Slaughter, of the University
of Wisconsin, who has had the great kindness to read this book in
manuscript. My husband, Francis G. Allinson, has assisted me at every
turn in its preparation. With one exception, acknowledged in its
place, all the translations are his.

A. C. E. A.




TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE
THE ESTRANGER . . . . . . 1
A POET'S TOLL . . . . . . 37
THE PHRASE-MAKER . . . . . 72
A ROMAN CITIZEN . . . . . 107
FORTUNE'S LEDGER . . . . . 144
A ROAD TO ROME . . . . . . 176




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