Cradle of Letters! Mistress of the World! Soil of the Sun! Italia! I salute thee! How oft the human race have worn thy yoke. The vessels of thine arms, thine arts, thy sky! (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)

Cradle of Letters! Mistress of the World! Soil of the Sun! Italia! I salute thee! How oft the human race have worn thy yoke. The vessels of thine arms, thine arts, thy sky!

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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