_When the three great temperance beverages, cocoa, tea, and coffee,
came to Europe--Coffee first mentioned by Rauwolf in 1582--Early
days of coffee in Italy--How Pope Clement VIII baptized it and made
it a truly Christian beverage--The first European coffee house, in
Venice, 1645--The famous Caffè Florian--Other celebrated Venetian
coffee houses of the eighteenth century--The romantic story of
Pedrocchi, the poor lemonade-vender, who built the most beautiful
coffee house in the world_
Of the world's three great temperance beverages, cocoa, tea, and coffee,
cocoa was the first to be introduced into Europe, in 1528, by the
Spanish. It was nearly a century later, in 1610, that the Dutch brought
tea to Europe. Venetian traders introduced coffee into Europe in 1615.
Europe's first knowledge of coffee was brought by travelers returning
from the Far East and the Levant. Leonhard Rauwolf started on his famous
journey into the Eastern countries from Marseilles in September, 1573,
having left his home in Augsburg, the 18th of the preceding May. He
reached Aleppo in November, 1573; and returned to Augsburg, February 12,