Excerpt from Roba Di Roma, Vol. 1 of 2 IN the present edition, the chapters on The Evil Eye and Saints and Superstitions have been omitted, and several others, such as those on the Colosseum, the Aqueducts, and the Good Old Times, have been materially altered. I have expressly avoided the discussion of questions relating to politics and religion, not because I have not very strong opinions on them, but because my book has another scope, and I could do jus tice neither to myself nor to these subjects in treating them thus incidentally. My chief object has been to describe what is charac teristic in the common life of Rome; but I have not felt thereby debarred from all subjects of a serious character, even though they should involve some slight historical sketches. The Ghetto, the Colosseum, and the Fountains, Aqueducts, and Baths, owe one of their great charms to associations with the past, and it would be difficult to give an account of them Without touching upon matters of history and archaeology. To scholars, the information contained in these chapters is superfluous; but to the main portion of travel lers it will not, I hope, he uninteresting; and it is for this reason that they have been retained, though all except that relating to the Ghetto have been much compressed and modified in form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.