Palmaria

She was sighted for the last time off the island of Palmaria, entering, with all sails spread, right into the thick of the storm-darkness.

Archive 2009-11-01 Theodora Goss 2009

This bay, at the mouth of which lies the island Palmaria, forms a most noble and secure harbour, capacious enough to contain all the navies in Christendom.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

Shortly after passing Riomaggiore, 51½ miles from Genoa, the Gulf of Spezia comes into view, with the promontory of Porto Venere and the island of Palmaria on the right, and in front numerous capes, the chief of which is Cape Corvo.

The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

To your right, across a tossing strip of blue water, full of green and gold, rises the island of Palmaria, and beyond that two other smaller islands,

Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922

The year of his death is unknown, but he probably did not live long after reaching Palmaria.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

In the sea is another sea, of molten, rippled silver, or a magic causeway leading to the shining vague offing, the luminous pale sky-line, where the islands of Palmaria and Tino float like unsubstantial, shadowy dolphins.

Hauntings Vernon Lee 1895

Some say they have seen her, on stormy nights, wandering among the cliffs: but a sailor-boy assures me, by all the holy things, that the day after the burning of the Castle Chapel -- we never call it anything else -- he met at dawn, off the island of Palmaria, beyond the

Hauntings Vernon Lee 1895

She was sighted for the last time off the island of Palmaria, entering, with all sails spread, right into the thick of the storm-darkness.

Hauntings Vernon Lee 1895

And it is said that when Silverius was dead of a broken heart in the little island of Palmaria, Belisarius repented of his deeds and built the small Church of Santa Maria de 'Crociferi, behind the fountain of

Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome 1881

The island of Palmaria, rich in veined marbles, shelters the port; so that outside the sea rages, while underneath the town, reached by a narrow strait, there is a windless calm.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series John Addington Symonds 1866