Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get

some sleep.

So find a comfortable spot, adjust your volume, take a nice deep breath in, let it out slowly, and off we go.

Tonight let's relax with a travelogue

from an author perhaps better known for his fiction.

Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens,

first published in 1846, and reprinted with eight illustrations by Chapman and Hall limited London

1913. Let's begin.

The Reader's Passport

If the readers of this volume will be so kind as to take their credentials for the different places, which are the subject of its author's reminiscences from the author himself.

Perhaps they may visit them in favor. from the author himself,

perhaps they may visit them in fancy, the more agreeably and with a better understanding

of what they are to expect.

Many books have been written upon Italy, affording many means of studying the history of

that interesting country and the innumerable associations entwined about it.

I make but little reference to that stock of information,

not at all regarding it as a necessary consequence of my having had recourse to the

storehouse for my own benefit that I should reproduce its easily accessible contents before the eyes of my readers.

Neither will there be found in these pages, any grave examination into the government or misgovernment of any portion of the country.

No visitor of that beautiful land can fail to have a strong conviction on the subject.

But as I chose when residing there, a foreigner, to abstain from the discussion of any such questions with any order of Italians,

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