| Old Calabria: (Norman Douglas Classics Collection) Contributor(s): Douglas, Norman (Author) |
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ISBN: 1508700672 ISBN-13: 9781508700678 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $15.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2015 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (1.24 lbs) 422 pages |
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| Publisher Description: One or two relics from this castle are preserved in the small municipal museum, founded about five years ago. Here are also a respectable collection of coins, a few prehistoric flints from Gargano, some quaint early bronze figurines and mutilated busts of Roman celebrities carved in marble or the recalcitrant local limestone. A dignified old lion--one of a pair (the other was stolen) that adorned the tomb of Aurelius, prastor of the Roman Colony of Luceria--has sought a refuge here, as well as many inscriptions, lamps, vases, and a miscellaneous collection of modern rubbish. A plaster cast of a Mussulman funereal stone, found near Foggia, will attract your eye; contrasted with the fulsome epitaphs of contemporary Christianity, it breathes a spirit of noble resignation: - |
