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How to see the Vatican

Name: How to see the Vatican
Author: Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen

Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen · 1914 · Scanned text

116,682 words · about 8 h 10 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845

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Author: Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen
Language: English
Published: 1914
Length: 116,682 words · about 8 h 10 min
Sections: 26 reader sections
Source: Internet Archive (howtoseevatican00sladuoft)
Text: Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights: Public domain · PD-US by publication date

Contents (26)

Front matter about 18 min
II about 9 min
Contents about 8 min
Introduction about 12 min
Chapter II What The Vatican Consists Of about 28 min
Chapter III The Origin Of The Vatican about 11 min
Chapter IV The Stoey Of The Building Of The Vatican about 28 min
Chapter V about 30 min
Chapter VI about 21 min
Chapter VII about 21 min
Chapter VIII about 25 min
Chapter IX about 8 min
Chapter X about 21 min
Chapter XI The Vatican Library about 27 min
Chapter XII The Visits Of Montaigne And Misson To The Vatican Library about 9 min
Chapter XIII The New Leonine Library Of The Printed Books Of The Vatican about 12 min
Chapter XIV The Archivio about 11 min
Chapter XV The Vatican Gardens about 15 min
Chapter XVI about 14 min
Chapter XVII Baffaelle's Tapestries about 8 min
Chapter XVIII The Paoline And Leonine Chapels about 11 min
Chapter XIX The Sistine Treasury about 9 min
Chapter XX about 5 min
Chapter XXI about 9 min
Chapter XXII The Borgia Apartments about 32 min
Chapter XXIII The Etruscan Museum about 1 h 28 min

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BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

HOW TO SEE ITALY BY RAIL. With 160 Illustrations of the most beautiful places, cathedrals, mosaics, sculptures, paintings, etc., and a new Railway Map ; also list of moderately priced hotels in every city. Pocket Edition (Second Impression), small crown 8vo. Library Edition, 8vo, buckram.

"As all men and women should see Italy before they die, travellers cannot do better than pack Mr. Sladen's volume in their portmanteaux." — Morning Post.

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