Vestiges of ancient manners and customs, discoverable in modern Italy and Sicily / By the Rev. John James Blunt.

  • Blunt, John J. (John James), 1794-1855.
Date:
1823
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Vestiges of ancient manners and customs, discoverable in modern Italy and Sicily / By the Rev. John James Blunt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    VESTIGES ANCIENT MANNERS AND CUSTOMS, &e. &c. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS ON THE RELIGION OF ITALY AND SICILY. As I descended from the Alps, I was ad- monished of my entrance into Italy, by a little chapel to the Madonna, built upon a rock by the road-side; and from that time till I re- passed this chain of mountains, I received almost hourly proof that I was wandering amongst the descendants of that people which is described by Cicero to have been the most B