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

Waern, Cecilia, 1853- · London, Duckworth & co · leaf 156

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and ricotia (curd cheese) in the big bowl atdinner ; never licentious, and all ending with areligious refrain : Sia lodatu lu Santu Sagramentu !E viva di lu Cirminu Maria ! Yet wine circulates freely at the masters expense,meals are frequent and abundant. After the supperof maccaruna there is half… … COUNTRY LIFE before the flower-decked image of St. Antony ofPadua, the tutelary saint of the growing corn. Insome localities the festival of the Madonna delleGrazie (June 2) is celebrated with offerings of firstfruits and even certain rites directly recalling thepagan observances in honour of Great…

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