5. Naples, Italy

Horatio leaves England, and five months later, Cornelia receives word that he has married an Italian at Naples. Later, Ethel and Edward come to visit, and Horatio shows them around the area. "The moon hung a glowing orb in the heavens, and lighted up the sea to beauty. A blood-red flash shot up now and then from Vesuvius; a summer softness was in the atmosphere, while a thousand tokens presented themselves of a climate more friendly, more joyous, and more redundant than that of the northern Isle from which they came" (257). While living in Naples, Horatio struggles with his marriage to Clorinda and his longing for Cornelia and England.