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Visit Southern Italy with A Sweet and Glorious Land: Revisiting the Ionian Sea

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From: Italian Voice, The
Date: 20000803
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Italian Voice, The
08-03-2000
Visit Southern Italy with A Sweet and Glorious Land: Revisiting the Ionian
Sea

In the fall of 1897, Victorian writer George Gissing, traveled to Siena,
Italy to write a critical study of Charles Dickens. When he finished, he
launched a month-long journey to Southern Italy, the Magna Graecia of
ancient times. It was in this region that the Greeks first settled, long
before indigenous Romans moved out of their mud huts along the Tiber River
and created their powerful Republic. Gissing's journey resulted in a book,
By the Ionian Sea, which was published in 1901 and has ...

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