Author: Charles MacFarlanePublisher: London C. Knight 1846.
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Popular Customs, Sports and Recollections of the South of Italy
Author: Charles MacFarlanePublisher: London C. Knight 1846.
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Popular customs ... of the South of Italy
Author: Charles MacfarlaneThe Little Slaves of the Harp
Author: John E. ZucchiPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773517554
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
During the nineteenth century child musicians could be seen performing in the streets of cities across Europe and North America. Although they came from a number of countries, Italians were most associated with street music. In The Little Slaves of the Harp John Zucchi tells the story of the thousands of Italian children who were indentured to padrone and then uprooted from their villages in central and southern Italy and taken to Paris, London, and New York to perform as barrel-organists, harpists, violinists, fifers, pipers, and animal exhibitors.
Impressions of Southern Italy
Author: Sharon OudittPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134705069
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Naples was conventionally the southernmost stop of the Grand Tour beyond which, it was assumed, lay violent disorder: earthquakes, malaria, bandits, inhospitable inns, few roads and appalling food. On the other hand, Southern Italy lay at the heart of Magna Graecia, whose legends were hard-wired into the cultural imaginations of the educated. This book studies the British travellers who visited Italy's Southern territories. Spanning the late eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, the author considers what these travellers discovered, not in the form of a survey, but as a series of unfolding impressions disclosing multiple Southern Italies. Of the numerous travellers analysed within this volume, the central figures are Henry Swinburne, Craufurd Tait Ramage and Norman Douglas, whose Old Calabria (1915) remains in print. Their appeal is that they take the region seriously: Southern Italy wasn't simply a testing ground for their superior sensibilities, it was a vibrant curiosity, unknown but within reach. Was the South simply behind on the road to European integration; or was it beyond a fault line, representing a viable alternative to Northern neuroses? The travelogues analysed in this book address a wide variety of themes which continue to shape discussions about European identity today.
General Catalogue of the Books
Author: Detroit Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
Book Description
Popular Customs, Sports and Recollections of the South of Italy
Author: Charles MacFarlanePublisher: London C. Knight 1846.
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Old Puglia
Author: Desmond SewardPublisher: Haus Publishing
ISBN: 1909961337
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Apulia (or Puglia) is the heel of Italy, stretching down from the spur of the Italian boot. Its landscape is often very beautiful and it has wonderful old cities with Romanesque cathedrals, Gothic castles and a great wealth of Baroque architecture, together with 'rupestrian' churches that contain Byzantine frescoes. But, although far from inaccessible, until quite recently it was seldom visited by Anglo Saxons. Today, however, Apulia is becoming fashionable, 'an alternative to Tuscany'. It is featured on radio and television; travel supplements describe its beaches and its cooking, supermarkets stock Apulian wine, oil, bread and pasta. Yet almost nothing about the region has been published in English since the days of Norman Douglas and the Sitwells. One can find 'holiday histories' of Tuscany, but there is no popular introduction to Apulian history, not even in Italian. Our book, which grew out of what was originally intended as a travel book, has been written to fill the gap by providing a simple, readable account.
Popular Customs, Sports, and Recollections of the South of Italy (Classic Reprint)
Author: Charles MacfarlanePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333867966
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Excerpt from Popular Customs, Sports, and Recollections of the South of Italy Most of the subjects were suggested by the designs of Bartolommeo Pinelli. With a few exceptions, the papers were written from memory. They are the recollections of what I saw and heard in the South of Italy, between the years 1816 and 1827, and more particularly among the pea santry and common people. They relate, almost entirely, to matters which seem to be considered as too trivial to merit the attention of writing tourists, and which are not easily to be learned by the hasty traveller along the highroads, or by any one 'that does not wander into nooks and corners, and live much among the people of the country. Few. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Classified Catalogue, Not Including Fiction, Juveniles and German
Author: Peoria Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
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