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Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Individual Item Contents: WPRP 84

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Author

Robinson, Mary (1758-1800).

Title

Picture of Palermo. By Dr. Hagar. Translated from the German by Mrs. Mary Robinson. 1^st ed. in English

Imprint

London : Printed for R. Phillips, 1800.

Physical description

12mo,vi,159pp., engraved title, rebound in contemporary style boards, printed label. First edition in English, first published in Berlin a year earlier and here translated by the poet, novelist, actress and celebrated beauty Mary Robinson, known otherwise as "Perdita."

Call number

WPRP 84.

Citation

none.

Notes

Includes Advertisement.

Epigraph

Know’st thou the Land where Citrons scent the gale,
Where glows the Orange in the golden Vale,
Where softer Breezes fan the azure Skies,
Where Myrtles spring, and prouder Laurels rise.

Goethe

Contents

The Winter at Palermo	1
The Summer	10
Buildings	20
Customs	33
The Observatory	41
The Women	47
Arabian Antiquities	55
A View of the Sea	61
Theaters	66
Amusements	76
Other Customs	85
Language	92
Cheats	100
Solemnities	117
Burials	124
Society	131
Country round Palermo	140
Political State of Palermo and Sicily	148



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Women Poets of the Romantic Period Individual Item Contents: WPRP 84

Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Individual Item Contents: WPRP 84