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Mediaeval Sicily, aspects of life and art in the middle ages (1910)

Waern, Cecilia, 1853- · London, Duckworth & co · leaf 146

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s, in a small way, as butchers,bakers, and charcoal-vendors. These glimpses of everyday life in one of thesmaller towns are of double interest to us, sincethey relate to Cefalu, the old cathedral town onthe north coast, unique in archsological interest,as lovely, suggestive, and exotic in site as… … COUNTRY LIFE in the same kind of tiny, open shops, with thefamily mattresses piled up on the trestle-bed andthe votive lamp kept burning in the dusk of thebackground, and the family cooking going on overa small portable stove outside, that are still to beseen in certain dark, narrow side-streets…

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