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Excerpt from The Classic and Connoisseur in Italy and Sicily, Vol. 2: With an Appendix, Containing an Abridged Translation of Lanzi's Storia PittoricaConformity between the Catholic and Pagan Religious Cere monies - The Burning of Incense, Dress of the Priests'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical wo...

Excerpt from The Classic and Connoisseur in Italy and Sicily, Vol. 1: With an Appendix, Containing an Abridged Translation of Lanzi's Storia PittoricaEustace's book, as one of the earliest and most voluminous that has appeared upon the subject during the present century, though applauded at first, has of late years been exposed to a larger share of censure than any other, indeed - not withstanding its cloggy and cumbrous style, notwithstanding...

This is a collection of country folklore in words and pictures - an anthology of oral history by the author of "The Strength of the Hills" and "The Horse in the Furrow".

Pioneering book of oral history, The Pattern Under the Plough shows that even in modern societies, governed by science and technology, there are still traces of a civilisation whose beliefs were bound to the soil and whose reliance on the seasons was a matter of life or death.

Excerpt from The Classic and Connoisseur in Italy and Sicily, Vol. 1: With an Appendix, Containing an Abridged Translation of Lanzi's Storia Pittorica "Italy, " observes Dean Berkley, in a letter to Pope, "is such an exhausted subject, that, I dare say, you would easily forgive my saying nothing about it." If such a remark was applicable in 1717, how much more must it be so now, when, as d'Israeli expresses it, "Travels and Voyages have becom...

Excerpt from The Classic and Connoisseur in Italy and Sicily, Vol. 2: With an Appendix, Containing an Abridged Translation of Lanzi's Storia Pittorica The prince has lately been endeavouring to repair the loss of his statues, and in one of the rooms may be seen an infinity of heads, arms, and legs, all waiting to be an hexed to their respective trunks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic b...

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