Italy, the Magic Land is a classic Italy travel text by Lilian Whiting. "The world of art is an ideal world, -- The world I love, and that I fain would live in; So speak to me of artists and of art, Of all the painters, sculptors, and musicians That now illustrate Rome." The mystic charm of the pilgrimage to Assisi; the romance that reflects itself in the violet seas and flaming splendors of the sky on the shores of Ischia and Capri; the buried treasures of Amalfi; the magnetic impressiveness of the Eternal City, --all these enter into life as new forces to build and shape the future into undreamed-of destinies.