Excerpt from Silvia, Vol. 1 of 3 OM sabino nardi sat reading Horace in the small plot of ground, half orchard and half garden, which girt his masseria. For villa it could not be called. Indeed it was no more than a very little Italian farmhouse; but then it had a loggia and a low flat roof, whereby it Amade, as it were, the surrounding country its own; for rising as it did on one of the many heights above Sorrento, it overlooked that broad bay Which sleeps in careless beauty within the grim shadow of Vesuvius. 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.