Table of contents : Content: Translator's introduction -- To be in Venice -- In praise of Venice -- The back alleys -- Pensione -- Ungheria -- The secret of St Mark's -- San Zanipolo -- A thought -- Evening in the piazza -- Signoras and signorinas -- Ca' Rezzonico -- Vicenza -- Vicenza -- The confession of a bourgeois 53 -- Heat -- Vittoriale -- House and cypress tree -- Solitude -- The people's train -- Bologna -- Ravenna -- Byzantium -- The tomb of Dietrich von Bern -- San Marino -- The third tower -- Ferrara -- Trieste, or, in a word, exhaustion.