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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... seen the poor fishermen at Catania regularly greeted on their arrival at the coast with the produce of their day's toil , by the craving voice of a Capuchin or Franciscan ; nor has that been refused to the holy vagrant which ordinary ...
... seen a tablet fixed over one in which an indulgence was proclaimed to such as would there repeat an Ave Maria . At the three fountains a couple of miles distant from Rome , said to have sprung from the ground when St. Paul's head ...
... seen in Sicily a few withered ears of corn placed in the hand and wreathed round the brow of a Madonna Vialis ; a trifling circumstance in itself , but such as could not fail , at all events in that island , to suggest that such were ...
... seen on each side the great gate by which the house of an Ita- lian is approached . I observed this to be particularly the case in the neighbourhood of Bologna . III . Thirdly , the prodigious number of small images and household gods ...
... seen St. Roch , figuring in a military cloak and Hessian boots , between our Saviour and the Virgin in this cubicular service . It may be worth while to add , that the mixture of sacred and profane images thus used in the early ages of ...
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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 |