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Title: Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stieler, Karl, 1842-1885 Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Antonio, conte, 1843-1913, former owner. IU-R Paulus, Eduard, 1837-1907 Kaden, Woldemar, 1838-1907 Trollope, Frances Eleanor, d. 1913 Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892
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Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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A PROCESSION ACROSS THE COUNTRY. 43i the village of Mercocdiano is said to derive its name from Mercurii ara\ and a meadowhard by bears to this day the name of Vesta. From a very remote antiquity, numerous Christian churches and chapels have stoodin this neighbourhood ; and they owe their fame to the antique traditions of Diana the
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MONTE VERGINE. Helpful, in whose footprints on the steep, treeless, chalk cliff, Our Lady of Succour hastrodden. In honour of the latter a famous convent has been erected on the ruins ofheathendom : and thither goes the Pentecost procession. All Naples and the adjacent towns and villages gird themselves up for this proces-sion. Piety and wild jollity are mingled with keen love of gain, which urges the dealersand pedlars with their carts hung with bells, and with stores of dainties, and toys, and wine,and water, to be early on the spot. The tambourine seller must not fail either : nor thosewho sell flags and fireworks, guitars and castanets. For after the church ceremoniesfollow dance and song and bacchanalian orgies ; and for the due supply of these latter,arc needed the hundreds of moveable kitchens and cellars with abundant store of pro-visions, which precede the locust-like advance of the pious and jolly Whitsuntide pilgrims. Here they come ! The devout carry presents for the shrin

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