Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts), 1820-1875 · New York, Fowler and Wells · leaf 433
tans still manifest their early Greek origin intheir levity and playfulness, their taste for sophisms and spe-cious argument, and their dances and festivals. A very in-telligent observer, Signor Gajani, has informed us that hehas visited districts inthe Neapolitan Stateswhere the peasantshave… … capacity, to the upperclass. The Neapolitanpopulation h as nodoubt also receivedlarge Semitic mixtures F]s- ess -Michael Angelo. from early Phoenician and modern Arabian colonization andconquest. The Norman element seems to have been very slight. Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica show traces of the…
Physiognomy · Phrenology
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