- 1Author’s Note
- 2Of Beauty, Faith, and Death: A Rhapsody by Way of Prelude
- 3Fantasia Napolitana: Being a Reverie of Aquariums, Museums, and Dea…
- 4The Carpenter’s Wife: A Capriccio
- 5The Earth the Centre of the Universe: Or the Absurdity of Astronomy
- 6Of Autocosms Without Facts: Or the Emptiness of Religions
- 7Of Facts Without Autocosms: Or the Irrelevancy of Science
- 8Of Facts With Alien Autocosms: Or the Futility of Culture
- 9St. Francis: Or the Irony of Institutions
- 10The Gay Doges: Or the Failure of Society and the Impossibility of S…
- 11The Superman of Letters: Or the Hypocrisy of Politics
- 12Lucrezia Borgia: Or the Myth of History
- 13Sicily and the Albergo Samuele Butler: Or the Fiction of Chronology
- 14Intermezzo
- 15Lachrymæ Rerum at Mantua: With a Denunciation of D’Annunzio
- 16Of Dead Sublimities, Serene Magnificences, and Gagged Poets
- 17Variations on a Theme
- 18High Art and Low
- 19An Excursion Into the Grotesque: With a Glance at Old Maps and Mode…
- 20An Excursion Into Heaven and Hell: With a Depreciation of Dante
- 21St. Giulia and Female Suffrage
- 22Icy Italy: With Venice Rising From the Sea
- 23The Dying Carnival
- 24Napoleon and Byron in Italy: Or Letters and Action
- 25The Consolations of Phlebotomy: A Paradox at Pavia
- 26Risorgimento: With Some Remarks on San Marino and the Millennium
- 27I
Italian Fantasies
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