L. Fischetti
Published: 2015-07-28
Total Pages: 160
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Excerpt from Pompei Past and Present: Herculaneum and National-Museum The object of this work is to give the general reader a popular idea of what Pompeii was before it was destroyed by the great eruption. Few people of the many thousands who annually visit the city have the time or the books necessary to enable them to understand what they see in the course of a morning's walk through the ruins, and we believe that to such, a work of this kind will be a real boon, by giving them a definite idea of the town such as they cannot obtain in the course of a cursory visit. Nor will those who have not seen the city, and whose knowledge of it is confined to that charming work 'the Last Days of Pompeii, ' fail to enjoy a study of the localities which will enable. Them to realise the scenes where the dramatic incidents of that interest ing book are laid. It should always be remembered, and it is nearly always forgotten, that although Pompeii was destroyed in a day, it was not built in one. It contains specimens of architecture as early at least as 500 b.c., and though its houses have to a certain extent all assumed the type of the Roman habitations of the day, because the city was rebuilt after the earthquake which occurred in 63 a.d., sixteen years before the eruption, signs are not wanting of the massive stonework of the Etruscan age, with which. The excavations near Florence have made all travellers familiar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.