Old CalabriaCosimo, Inc., 1 апр. 2007 г. - Всего страниц: 340 At the time when southern Italy was an isolated and underdeveloped region, Douglas wrote this 1915 travel guide to bring the beauty that he found in Calabria to the reading public. Inspired by the landscape, unique cultural traditions, and proximity to history, he found even traveling on long mule trails to be an enjoyable part of the journey rather than an inconvenience. Written in a chatty, conversational tone, Old Calabria will be of interest to armchair travelers and to anyone who enjoys stories of everyday adventure. British writer NORMAN DOUGLAS (1868-1952) wrote a number of books, including South Wind (1917). |
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AT VENOSA | 35 |
THE BANDUSIAN FOUNT | 39 |
TILLERS OF THE SOIL | 45 |
REPOSING AT CASTROVILLARI | 115 |
OLD MORANO | 126 |
AFRICAN INTRUDERS | 132 |
UPLANDS OF POLLINO | 140 |
A MOUNTAIN FESTIVAL | 149 |
MILTON IN CALABRIA | 158 |
THE GREEK SILA | 172 |
ALBANIANS AND THEIR COLLEGE | 182 |
MOVING SOUTHWARDS | 60 |
THE FLYING MONK | 69 |
BY THE INLAND SEA | 75 |
MOLLE TARENTUM | 85 |
INTO THE JUNGLE | 93 |
DRAGONS | 98 |
BYZANTINISM | 103 |
AN ALBANIAN SEER | 189 |
SCRAMBLING TO LONGOBUCCO | 194 |
AMONG THE BRUTTIANS | 203 |
CALABRIAN BRIGANDAGE | 212 |
THE GREATER SILA | 218 |
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Стр. 166 - They sat them down to weep. Nor only tears Rained at their eyes, but high winds worse within Began to rise, high passions — anger, hate, Mistrust, suspicion, discord — and shook sore Their inward state of mind, calm region once And full of peace, now tost and turbulent...
Стр. 165 - The first, at least, of these I thought denied To beasts, whom God on their creation-day Created mute to all articulate sound ; The latter I demur, for in their looks Much reason, and in their actions oft appears.
Стр. 312 - For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Стр. 312 - This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, " I am, and there is none beside me:" how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in ! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.
Стр. 163 - And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand; and from his seat The monster moving, onward came as fast With horrid strides; Hell trembled as he strode.
Стр. 23 - Not in his shape celestial, but as man Clad to meet man; over his lucid arms A military vest of purple...
Стр. 326 - ... that southern Haunter of calm blue spaces'. He continues, at the end of Old Calabria : 'This corner of Magna Graecia is a severely parsimonious manifestation of nature. Rocks and waters! But these rocks and waters are actualities; the stuff whereof man is made. A landscape so luminous, so resolutely scornful of accessories, hints at brave and simple forms of expression; it brings us to the ground, where we belong; it medicines to the disease of introspection and stimulates a capacity which we...
Стр. 119 - Called us to pet thee or to praise, Dear little friend! at every turn? That loving heart, that patient soul, Had they indeed no longer span, To run their course, and reach their goal And read their homily to man? That liquid, melancholy eye, From whose pathetic, soul-fed springs Seemed surging the Virgilian cry, The sense of tears in mortal things...
Стр. 97 - A single eucalyptus will ruin the fairest landscape. No plant on earth rustles in such a horribly metallic fashion when the wind blows through those everlastingly withered branches; the noise chills one to the marrow; it is like the sibilant chattering of ghosts. Its oil is called "medicinal...
Стр. 305 - if you have designs of Trading, you must go another way; but if you're of the admir'd sort of Men, that have the thriving qualifications of Lying and Cheating, you're in the direct path to business ; for in this City no Learning flourisheth, Eloquence has not a room here; Temperance, Good Manners, nor any Virtue can meet a reward; assure your selves of finding but two sorts...