Vestiges of Ancient Manners and Customs: Discoverable in Modern Italy and SicilyVestiges of Ancient Manners and Customs, Discoverable in Modern Italy and Sicily by John James Blunt, first published in 1823, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it. |
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... Charms . 162 CHAPTER XI . On the Burial of the Dead • . 179 CHAPTER XII . On the Agriculture of Italy . 192 CHAPTER XIII . On the Towns , Houses , Utensils , & c . of the Italians and Sicilians CHAPTER XIV . On the ordinary Habits ...
... charms - to instigate pilgrimages - to clothe the altars with votive tablets - and to give currency to numbers of miracles which have not a shadow of testi- mony to their truth . In short , it has made the countries of Italy and Sicily ...
... charms , and the like . I. The first division of Lares of which I shall speak , consists of those that were fixed in the public streets , particularly in situations where several ways met , and where the con- flux of the populace was ...
... charms . To what an extent they were employed in this capacity may be guessed from the num- ber of small antique figures still existing , formed of bronze , bone , ivory , or other mate- rials , bored , and evidently intended to be worn ...
... introduced . Such has ever been the tendency of the inhabitants of Italy to embody every religious conception in some corporeal form . M 162 CHAPTER X. ON CHARMS . IN countries where credulity OF THE CHURCH OF ITALY . 161.
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Vestiges of Ancient Manners and Customs, Discoverable in Modern Italy and Sicily J. j. 1794-1855 Blunt No preview available - 2015 |