Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore
THE following stories were told to me by various peasants during a summer stay amid the Tuscan Apennines above Pistoia. I had gone there with a companion in search of quiet for the summer holidays. But I fell ill, and, there being no nurses and no doctors, was tended by an old...
But Teresina put on her beautiful dresses when she went out walking: and one day the king’s son saw her, and loved her because she looked so good and beautiful. So Teresina marr...
3. Part 3Now his jolly times began again. His barrel of wine never ran dry, and his cupboard never grew empty. Everybody came to see him. They ate, drank, and led a merry life.
9. Part 9“‘Do you know I have been wanting to make your acquaintance for a long time past? I have had an instinctive feeling that I could confide in you as in no one else: a strange symp...
1. Part 1THE following stories were told to me by various peasants during a summer stay amid the Tuscan Apennines above Pistoia. I had gone there with a companion in search of quiet for...
4. Part 4I HAD left Clementina and the little ones behind me, and had moved further up among the Apennines to a village which, perched on a low hill, overlooks the river and the winding...
5. Part 5After everyone had thus turned this “slight refreshment” into a hearty meal, the whole party set out for the church, which was at Rivoreta, a village some little distance off. I...
8. Part 8Elba, towering above her satellites Pianosa, Monte Cristo, S. Stefano, Giglio, with the rocky islet of Palmaiola as sentinel in the very narrow channel towards Piombino, is an e...
6. Part 6“We are going to have _maccheroni_ this evening,” said my hostess. “I rolled them out before I left home this morning. But we must cut them first,” she added, as she produced th...
7. Part 7All this is absolutely lonely, save for a few goats that now and again make their way up, and the falcon that screams and wheels overhead. Once it was the storehouse of the Etru...
12. Part 12As will be seen from the foregoing sketch, Carducci is no easy-going poet. He bears out in his everyday work the dislike he has expressed at seeing the Lyric in dressing-gown an...
11. Part 11“When, in the dark ilexes and new-flowered almond, revels the nuptial chorus of the birds, and the primroses on the sunny hills are eyes of old-world nymphs looking out on morta...
10. Part 10Love for the Rebels! Heart-bitten, they, By sùpreme anguish; Linked in Love’s leash With those who weep, with those who tremble, With those, outcast, by Christ redeemed, By bret...
13. Part 13In “_The Two Children_” two little ones, having come to blows in heroic fashion at their play one evening, are ignominiously swept off to bed by their mother. In the dark, full...
14. Part 14_Lo Wanderer! who hast found my poor abode— This humble rest-house for the wayfarer— The window-flowers glow in God’s sunlight dear,_ _The linnet’s note lifteth Care’s weary loa...