Alexandre Dumas

Nisida illustrated Alexandre Dumas

If our readers, tempted by the Italian proverb about seeing Naples and then dying, were to ask us what is the most favour- able moment for visiting the enchanted city, we should advise them to land at the mole, or at Mergellina, on a fine summer day and at the hour when some solemn procession is moving out of the cathedral. Nothing can give an idea of the profound and simple-hearted emotion of this populace, which has enough poetry in its soul to believe in its own happiness