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Title: South by east : notes of travel in southern Europe
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Rodwell, G. F. (George Farrer), b. 1843
Subjects: Europe, Southern -- Description and travel 1871-1918
Publisher: London : M. Ward & Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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the massacreknown as the Sicilian Vespers, in 12S2. Of other buildings worthy of passing notice there is the Arch-bishops Palace, which possesses a beautiful tower of the twelfthcentury, connected with the Cathedral by a flying arch high in theair. The present Archbishop, Monsignor Michael Angelo Celesia,was formerly Abbot of Monte Cassino, and belongs to a nobleSicilian family. He refuses to acknowledge the present King ofItaly, and has consequently been turned out of his palace anddeprived of his revenues. He lives in the Archbishops Seminaryclose by, and receives his salary from the Pope. The Governmentcannot take further stej s ; they have no power to appoint a newArchbishop. The Sicilians generally are very disafiected towards theGovernment, and would probably revolt if they got the chance. Near the Archbishops Palace there is a great hospital, erectedin 1330, and now used as a barrack. It contains several cinque-cento frescoes, one of them the • Triumph of Death, surely a most
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oS S ►J< oo Mtisettm of Antiqtnties, 195 inappropriate subject for a hospital—at least inappropriate to bebefore the eyes of the patients. Palermo possesses a large andflourishing university, and a library well supplied with worksrelating to Sicilian history. The Museum of Antiquities has lately undergone considerableextension, and it now contains some good examples of earlyGreek and Etruscan sculpture. Some of the former go back asfar as the seventh century before Christ, and are older than anyexisting Greek sculptures, with the exception of the Lions at Mycenae.The sculptures at Palermo are mainly from Selinus and Selinunto ;they are, unfortunately, executed in very coarse sandstone, and inmany instances are much worn by the weather. The exposedportions—face, hands, and feet—of the female figures are of whitemarble, while the drapery, and the whole of the male figures, is ofthe coarse sandstone used for the other portions of the temples.Another of the great treasures of t

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