Sophie in Europe (Rome?) l932
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#946 p 39 Sophie
indicates she and Jack enjoyed Rome,staying in moderate priced pension after
expensive Naples hotel. They visited catacombs, Coliseum, Vatican, art
museums. Mr. and Mrs. Pardee invited them to dinner and opera- they dressed
formally as requested, but it turned out the Pardees' seats were high up in
the galleries, where everyoe wore informal clothes. Mollie Barrett enjoyed
1963 Rome visit with Pistorino family. Jack visited Italy twice - in 1909 he
saw Genoa, Naples,Messina Bari, Venice, Trieste, and nearby Malta then
british, now independent--in 1932 he and Sophie toured Naples, Rome,
Florence, Venice and then had brief look at Italian riviera near French
border. As a boy Jack read Henty's "Makers of Florence" and "Makers of
Venice." He had four years of Latin study at Boston Latin and two or three
of classic Greek, and was particularly familiar with Julius Caesar's "Gallic
Wars". He used the Duruy-Grosvenor Ancient History 1898 revision of 1848
text both at Boston Latin and revenue Cutter School. |