Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some tanning and marking to page edges due to age. Page faces are bright and clean. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> A little way beyond pleasant Mount Falerno between an- cient Cumae and Pozzuoli one comes to delightful Le Baie above the beaches than which there are no places more pleasant ‘neath the heavens. Here the most leisure hours are spent and when more actively inclined the ladies engage in amorous discussion among themselves or in the company of the young men; here only the choicest viands are served and wines nobly aged powerful not only to awaken sleeping Venus but to resus- citate her if dead in any man; how much greater still in that regard are the properties of the various baths only one who has tried them can know Here the beaches and the pleasant gar dens and all these places resound continually with many fes- tivities with new games with most graceful dances with an infinity of musical instruments with songs of love some played by young men or sung some by fair ladies. As the weather was very warm in keeping with the season many other ladies and I myself in order to bear it as comfortably as possible ploughing the waters of the sea aboard a swift many-pared bark. singing and playing sought out the further reefs