INDEX
Abruzzi peasants, their lives, 27.
Abulfeda, historian, 135.
Abystron, 119. See Castrovillari.
Aceti, T., 93.
Acheron, river. See Mu.com.
Acherontia (? Acri), 195.
“Acherontia’s Nest” (Acerenza), 32.
Achilles, his notions of gratitude, 123.
Achiropita image. See Madonna.
Acinapura, near Policoro, 98.
Acri, town, 193-196, 199.
Ada Sanctorum, in.
Adamo Caduto, a sacred tragedy, inspires “Paradise Lost,” 160 seq.
Adler, H. M., 122.
Aelian, 197.
Afforestation, at Morano, 148; governmental schemes for, 218.
Africo, village, 271, 272.
Agropoli, Saracen stronghold, 137.
Akron, commentator, 45. Alaro (Sagra), river, 281-283.
Albanians, their colonies, 176, 189; confused with Byzantines, 176, 272; their liberalism, 177, 183; wedding ceremony, 182; compared with Irish, 186; their training college, 183; preposterous language, 173,187. See Costumes and Rada, G. de.
Alberada, her tomb, 38.
Alberti, L., 174.
Alburno, mount, 151.
Alexander of Molossus, his death, 197.
Alfonso the Magnificent, no.
Altamura, sack of, 64, 65.
Altipiano di Pollino, upland, 145.
Amendolea, river, 197, 272.
America. See Emigration.
Amphitheatre of Venosa, 31, 38.
Ampollina, river, 217, 219, 220.
Amusa, river, 282.
Analphabetics, percentage of, 259.
Anastasius, saint, 111.
Anchoretism, its charms, 112.
Ancinale, river, 295.
Angels, injured by art-notions of Renaissance, 25; frescoes at Venosa, 38.
Animals, utilized as drugs, 57; cruelty to, 120.
Anne, saint, 250; wells dedicated to, 301.
Anopheles mosquito. See Malaria.
Anthology, its dog-types, 120.
Apennines, their terminal peak, 145. Aphrodite, 25.
Apollo, 25, 27, 28, 209.
Appulus, King of Sipontum, 29.
Aprustum, 119. See Castrovillari.
Aqueduct, the Apulian, 42.
Arabs, bigots because half-starved, 126. See Corsairs and Saracens.
Archytas, lav.-giver, 65, 92.
Aretino, P., 140.
Arfaxad, fabled king, 29.
Argo, highest literary dog-type, 120.
Aristotle, 100, 101, 312.
Arnold, Matthew, 120, 171.
Arpi, town, 29.
Arum lily (A. aracunculus), 143.
Arvo, river, 217, 220.
Asceticism, introduction into south Italy, 251 seq.; its pernicious effects, 260.
Aspromonte, 195, 240; reputation for crime, 245, 246; its contorted structure, 270; Byzantine settlements in, 272.
Athos, mount, 113.
Augustine, saint, 256.
Augustus, professes scorn of luxury, 92.
“Avanti,” a corrupt rag, 280.
Ayrola, P., bishop, 251.
Babylonia, Sultan of, 37.
Baedeker, 105.
Bagnara, town, 240, 242.
Bagpipes, 151, 155.
Balfour, A. J., 265.
Balzo, Pierro del, 37.
Bandusian Fount, 43-46.
Bantia (Banzi), 32.
Barbarano, a glen, 219.
Barbarossa. See Frederick II.
Barbarossa, pirate-brothers, 140.
Barbers, their Hellenic loquacity, 81-82.
Bari, compared with Taranto, 89.
Barletta, town, II.
Baronius, cardinal, 258.
Barrius, his philopatria, 142; on Calabrian rivers, 286.
Bartels, J. H., 123.
Earth, Dr. H., 306.
Bartholomaeus, saint, 108.
Basile, A., 69.
Basilean monks, their convents, in, 113; supplanted by Benedictines, 113; their ideals, 115; convent of St. Adrian, 185.
Basilicata, province, emigration from, 49; military road through, 123; old boundary of, 145; its bagpipes, 151, 155.
Batiffol, P., 113, 186, 272.
Bears in Calabria, 94, 146.
Beatrix, princess, 7, 8.
Beccaria, C. de, 276.
Beccarini family, 13.
Beeches at Pollino, 146; in old Latium, 285.
Bellerophon, a dragon-slayer, 102.
Belmonte, prince, 49.
Beltrano, O., 114.
Benedict XIII, no.
Benedict, saint, 252.
Benedictines, their architecture, 39; displace Basileans, 113,
Beneventana, 29.
Benincasa, Venerable Orsola, 255-256, 258.
Benincasa, brigand, 213.
Benjamin of Tudela, 81, 136.
Benoth (Venus), 33.
Bernard, saint, 250.
Bernardo da Rogliano, biography of, 144.
Bernhardi, Prof., 3.
Bertaux, E., 39, 78, in, 186.
Biblioteca Calabra in Naples, 93.
Birds, how to diminish slaughter of, 52; eaten raw, 56.
Bisignano, town, 135, 194.
Bivona, town, 320.
Black colour, of Saracens, 52, 130; of water, 80.
Blaev, J., 67.
Blake, W., 190.
Blanc, Jos., 53.
Blood-letting, popular treatment of disease, 194.
Blue, deficient colour-sense for, 51, 52.
Boccaccio, 80, 260.
Boccara, V., 228.
Boemund, 38.
Boissier, G., 46.
Bollandists, in.
Bonghi, R., statesman, 4.
Bordeaux, royal duel at, 8.
Borgia, village, 293.
Borjès, J., 215.
Botta, C., quoted, 122.
Botte Donato, mount, 122.
Bourbons, their treatment of prisoners, n; persecute Albanians, 177, 183; protectors of forests, 218; their ecclesiastics and saints, 212, 260; conditions of Calabria under, 97, 298. See Brigandage.
Bourget, P., 296.
Bova, town, 241, 245, 272-273.
Bovio, G., statesman, 4.
Bradano, river, 286.
Breakfast in Italy, dislocates moral stability, 18, 125; responsible for homicides, 127.
Briar (bruyère), manufacture of pipes, 269.
Brigands, at Venosa, 34; Longobucco, 202; in the Sila, 211 seq.; pensioned by Bourbons, 214; their crimes, 212, 215; their wealth, 215; interview with one, 245.
Brigandage, extent of evil, 144; fostered by the church, 144, 215; by Bourbons, 203, 212, 214, 215; by English, 212; its political character, 211, 214; repression of, 212-215.
“Bronze of Siris,” 197.
Bruno, Giordano, 269.
Bruno, physician of Longobucco, 202.
Bruttians, misrepresented, 197; their characteristics, 208; respect for women, 209; reputation for bloodthirstiness, 210.
Buchholtz, H., 190.
Buckle, H. T., 90.
Buffaloes at Policoro, 99.
Bugliari, bishop, 183.
Bugs, their medicinal properties, 105.
Burial, premature, 300.
Burnous, surviving in Italy, 20.
Byzantines, at Gargano, 17; a period of revival, in; their convents, 113, 186; survive in Aspramente, 272-274; confused with Albanians, 176, 272.
Caietanus, O., 111.
“Calabrere” fur, 222.
Calabria, used to include Apulia, 89; its great men and natural attractions, 93; wild animals, 94; its inns, 106; race-character of natives, 109; their hardiness, 209; their philosophical bent, 291; inhabited before the flood, 119; situation of inland towns, i io, 200; their squalor, 128,206; older descriptions of, 134, 142; English travellers in, 181; modern French researches, 186; changeinlandscapeandclimate, 219, 241, 284-287; its rivers, 286; wistfulness of scenery, 320. See Malaria.
Calamo, river, 196.
Calascione Scordato, a poem, 131.
Calendaro, river, io, 21.
Calypso, island, 284, 319.
Camorra, 57, 125, 279.
Campanella, T., philosopher, 282, 292.
Campanula fragilis, 225.
Campo di Bova, upland, 272.
Campo Tenese, village, 123.
Cantù, C., 190.
Capaccio, bishop of, 212.
Capasso, B., 3.
Capialbi, V., 136, 320.
Capmartin de Chaupy, on Bandusian Fount, 43-45.
Caprasia. See Tarsia.
Carafa, village, 293.
Carducci, commentator, 80.
Carducci, poet, 5.
Carob-tree, its cultivation neglected, 49.
Caroline, Queen, 215.
Carthusian monasteries, 293-294.
Caruso, brigand, 214.
Casalnuovo, village, 271, 272.
Caserta, palace of, 139, 204.
Casimir of Poland, prince, 75.
Casino, village, 207.
Cassano, town, 121, 176.
Cassiodorus, 221.
Castaldi, G., 284. Castel del Monte, 11, 12.
Castel del Monte, 11, 12.
Castel Fiorentino, 8.
Castelvetere. See Caulonia. “
Castle of the Giant,” 19.
Castrovillari, its origin, 119; old town, 121; colony of Jews, 122.
Catacomb-worship, 27; at Venosa, 38.
“Cataldiados,” a baroque poem, 67.
Cataldo, saint, his shrine and biographies, 67.
Catanzaro, 172, 223; its museum, 224, 226.
Catherine of Siena, saint, 38.
Cats in south Italy, 119-120.
Caulonia, a mediæval site, 281; its castle, 282; immunity from malaria, 284.
Cavalotti, F., politician, 108-109.
Cavara, Signor, 285.
Cave-worship, its origins and priestly uses, 23.
Celli, Prof., 288, 298.
Cellular confinement, 240, 276.
Cemeteries in Italy, their charm, 2, 299.
Cemetery of Reggio, 235.
Cenna, surviving Roman family, chronicler of Venosa, 32, 33, 43.
Cerauli, snake-killers, 138.
Cerchiara, village, 147.
Cerino, brigand, 215.
Cetara, Saracen stronghold, 137.
Cetraro, erection of postal letter-box at, 304.
Charity, a form of self-indulgence, 311.
Charles of Anjou, 7-8.
Chastity-ideal, poisons literature, 260.
Cheeses of Pollino, 142, 149; of Sila, 221.
Chemists, an authoritative class, 105, 307.
Cherub, a decayed conception, 24.
Chestnuts, destruction of, 220; of Tarentum, 285.
Children, as wage-earners in America, 50; massacre of illegitimate, 59; sold by contract, 97; kidnapped for sale to Turks, 139.
China, its dragon-god, 104.
Cholera, 26, 128, 157, 172, 173.
Christian names, degeneration in, 57-58.
Church, Sir R., 77.
Cicadas, their uses, 182; of Reggio, 284.
Cimigliano, village, 205.
Circilla, upland, 219, 222.
Ciro, priest-brigand, 77.
Cirò, its wine, 306.
Cività, village, 153.
Cluver, Ph., 175.
Coachmen, how to manage, 17.
Cocynthum promontory (Punta di Stilo), 284.
Codex of Rossano, 114.
Cœnobitism develops out of eremitism, 112-113.
Colajanni, Prof., 278.
Cola Pesce, the diver, 228-229.
Colletta, P., 64, 212; quoted,, 213.
Colognati, river, 197.
“Colonia Elena,” 96.
Colorito, convent, 143-144.
Colour-sense of peasantry, 51-52.
Columella, 80, 285.
Column, Cape and temple-ruin at Cotrone, 301, 308, 318 seq.
Commercial travellers, an objectionable brood, 31, 296.
Comparetti, D., 272.
Condofuri, village, 272.
Confessors and penitents, 258.
Conradin, 7-8.
Contranome, the Happy Hazards of, 54-56.
Controra, the ominous hour, 321.
Cook, Eliza, 180.
Cookery, English contrasted with Italian, 125.
“Co-operation,” a local journal, 206.
Copertino, town, 71.
Corace, river, 195.
Coral fisheries, abandoned, 286.
Corigliano, town, 96, 115, 173, 184, 191.
Coronelli, V., 175.
Corsairs, destroy Manfredonia, 12; contrasted with Saracens, 138; their destructiveness, 139; depopulate sea-board, 140; crushed by steam, 141.
Corsi, F., 91.
Cortese, Prof., 270.
Coscile (Sybaris), river, 122, 172, 175.
“Cose di Puglie,” a remarkable book, 89.
Cosenza, Saracenism at, 134, 135; a pleasant town, 160; corrupt administration of, 193; described by Pacicchelli, 208; intellectual record and malaria, 287, 291.
Costanza, Queen, 7, 8.
Costanzo, A., 3.
Costumes, female, of Morano, 130; of Albanian colonies, 152-153, 178, 182; of San Giovanni, 205-206; of Tiriolo, 225.
Cotrone (Croton), 135, 207; its former size, 283; marshy surroundings, 286; recent revival, 297; lack of rainfall, 305.
Cotronei, 184.
Cotton-plant, 136. .
Courier, P. L., quoted, 212.
Cows, shod for threshing corn, 121; their milk disparaged, 149; in the Sila, 220; resuscitated from death, 261; of Cotrone, 301.
Crati (Crathis), river, 108, 213, 287; its “deluge,” 174; change of course, 175; legend of, 197.
Craven, Keppel, 80, 95, 294.
Crimes committed by brigands, 212, 215.
Crispi, F., 191.
“Cristiano,” origin of term, 138.
Croce Greca, a landmark, 195.
Cropolati, village, 198.
Crossbills, 205.
Cruelty to animals, 120.
Cryptomerias, futile love of, I, 83.
Cuma;, 119.
Cuomo, A., 264.
Cuomo Library, Naples, 67.
Cysat, J. L., 104.
Date-palm, 83, 136.
D’Azeglio, quoted, 217.
Death-penalty, preface of civilization, 276.
Decentralization of south Italy, 194, 250, 303.
Deforestation, impairs climate and national character, 12-13; fosters malaria, 32, 286; in Apulia, 44; at Castrovillari, 121; in Pollino region, 147-148; in “Greek” Sila, 180, 195; in Greater Sila, 207, 217, 218, 223; diminishes water-supply, 180, 217; in Crati-valley, 287.
Deities, sullied by vulgar contact, 24; must be plastic to survive, 25.
Delianuova, town, 240, 241, 245, 274.
Delizie Tarentine, 80.
Deluge, legend of, 174.
Democritus of Abdera, 312.
Demon of Midday, 321.
Demosthenes, 27, 279.
Deputy, my friend the Roman, on the need of employing employes, 20; discusses octroi officials, 34; how to manage the bourgeoisie, 87; disapproves of English methods, 117-119.
Devil, his perennial popularity, 25; his honesty, 266.
Diabetic tendency inherent in all gods, 25.
Diehl, C., 108, 186.
Dieting, improper, responsible for moral delinquencies, 126-127.
Diomed, city-founder, 29.
“Dog-eyed,” opprobrious epithet, too, 120.
Dogs, eaten as medicine, 57; their diet and appearance, 119; Greek attitude towards, 120.
Dolcedorme, mountain-range, 108, 142, 143.
Dolomieu, C. de, 234.
Domicilio coatto, system of, 276.
Dominican monks, 252, 258, 259.
Dorsa, V., 310.
Draco volans. See dragon.
Dragonara, Dragoneria, 112.
Dragone, rivulet, 100.
Dragon, synonymous with serpent, 100; possible prototypes in nature, 101; an animistic conception, 102; dragon-attributes and shapes, 103; recent degeneration of, 104.
Duret de Tavel, on game in Calabria, 95; on brigands, 202, 212.
Earth-movements, 284-285.
Earthquakes, injure Venosa, 31, 38; Rossano, 113; Reggio and Messina, 230-239; Bagnara, 242; Sant’ Eufemia, 243; Bova, 273; their effect on coast-line, 285. Eboli, C. d’, 256.
Ecclesiastics under Bourbons, prodigious numbers of, 212.
Edrisius, quoted, 109, 286, 298.
Education, Italian ideas on, 185.
Eels, resuscitated from death, 261.
Egidio, saint, 260-264.
Elba, island, 240.
Elia Junior, saint, in.
Elia Spelaeotes, saint, 111-112.
Elias, saint, displaces Helios, 188.
Elvira, Council of, 153.
Emigrants to America, their wine-bibbing propensities and intelligence, 21-22; other characteristics, 146, 209.
Emigration, reduces population, 28, 49, 209; its effect on the race, 48, 50, 97, 194, 210; breaks up big properties, 289.
English government, encourages brigandage, 212,
Englishmen, considered savages, 5.
English mentality, contrasted with Italian, 66, 91, 117, 123, 124, 179, 248, 265, 311.
English travellers in south Italy, 181, 280.
Ennius, 79.
Envy, prevalent native vice, 126, 127, 129.
Ephesus, synod of, 259.
Epictetus, 251.
Erasmus, 264.
Eros, degenerates into Cupid, 25.
Esaro, river (i), 172.
Esaro, river (2), 297.
Espedito, saint, 4.
Eucalyptus trees, a scandalous growth, 97, 98.
Euprassius, protospadarius of Calabria, 111.
Evelyn, John, 136.
Exmouth, Lord, 139.
Eye-like appearance of fountains, originates dragon-legends, 100.
Fabbrizia, town, 292, 293.
Fair complexion, at Venosa, 33; prejudice against, 209; eliminated by malaria, 225.
Falcone, N., 161.
Fallistro, mountain, 196.
Fallow-deer, now extinct, 95, 146.
Family, south Italian sense of, 124, 179, 279.
Fare figura, an Italian trait, 65.
Fata Morgana, 228.
Ferdinand, king, 140, 212.
Ferdinand the Catholic, 122.
Ferdinandea, upland, 292.
Festivals, nocturnal, 153.
Feudal conditions in Calabria, 97; re-creation of, 316.
Fever. See Malaria.
Fever, Maltese, 286.
“Fiamuri Arberit,” Albanian journal, 190.
Figs, different varieties of, 50-51.
Fiore, G., 113, 142, 175, 176, 186, 208, 286.
Firs, 146, 203, 222, 269; used as cow-fodder, 149; white firs, 285, 295.
Fishermen, their antique habits, 81.
Fulminicà, river, 197.
Fleas, at Spinazzola, 63.
Flora, of mountain parts, 145, 223; change in distribution, 285.
Floriacense, monastery, 207.
Flute, the double, 178.
Flying Monk. See Joseph of Copertino.
Focà, village, 281; depopulated by malaria, 283; revival of, 289.
Foggia, 7, 8, 10.
Forbiger, A., 195.
Forense (Fiorenza), 32.
Forests, of Policoro, 95; Pollino, 146-148; Sila, 204, 220; Italian, contrasted with Russian, 222; Gariglione, 222-223; of Serra, 295.
Forgeries, literary, 143.
Fortis, A., 228.
Fosse canarie, 300.
Fossombrone, town, 72.
Fountains, connected with dragon-legends, 101-104.
Francatripa, brigand, 211, 215.
Francavilla, town, 147.
Francesco di Paola, saint, 257.
Francis II, king, 214.
Francis of Assisi, saint, 18, 74, 75, 254.
Franciscan monks, 75, 160, 252, 258.
Frangipani, 7, 137.
Frederick II (Barbarossa), fortifies Lucera, 2; his affection for Saracens, 3; a modern type, 6; keeps a harem, 7; his treasures at Venosa, 37; introduces pheasants, 96.
Freemasonry, prevalence of, 183.
French, their repression of brigandage, 144, 202, 212.
Frida, river, 151.
Frogs, as mosquito-catchers, 99.
Fromentin, E., 155.
Frungillo, R., 261.
Galaesus, river, 80.
Galateus (Ferrari, A. de’), 89.
Galen, 283.
Galoppano, forestal station, 204.
Gardens, public, at Lucera, I; Manfredonia, 14; Taranto, 83; Catanzaro, 224; Messina, 231.
Gargano, mount, 2, 7, 21, 32; Byzantine influence at, 17.
Garibaldi, 183, 214, 240.
Gariglione, forest, 222.
Gaudolino, valley of, 144, 157.
Gay, Jules, 186.
Gebhardt & Harnack, on Codex of Rossano, 114.
Gecko, reputed poisonous, 205, Gelasius, pope, 262.
Genista anglica, 223.
Genovese, Dr. F., his malaria researches, 283, 284, 286, 290.
George, saint, his dragon, 103.
Gerace (Locri), 137, 274, 284, 285.
Germanese and tedesco, contradistinguished, 77.
Gesner, Konrad, 100.
Gessner, Salamon, 315.
Giadrezze, fountain, 80.
Giangiuseppe della Croce, saint, 253-255, 263.
Giannone, P., 4.
Gioia, town, 241.
Gioioso, town, 292.
“Giornale d’ Italia,” quoted, 115.
Giovene, G., 89.
Gissing, G., on Galaesus, 80; description of Reggio, 236; at Cotrone, 296-301; on Pythagoras, 309.
Giudice, G. del, 139.
Gladstone, W. E., 190.
Glasgow, its morality, 154.
“Glories of Mary,” 259.
Goats, a baneful quadruped, 149, 286.
Goethe, 237, 280.
Gothic attitude towards nature, 42; towards religion, 266.
Gourmont, R. de, 91.
Graffiti, their sociological import, 200.
Grandis, de, 53.
Grano, panegyrist of Calabria, 135.
Grant, J., 242.
Gratitude, southern sense of, 123.
Gravière, J. de la, 141.
“Grazie,” a word seldom used, 123.
Greco, L. M., 197.
Greek Comedy, 153.
Greeks, medieval. See Byzantines.
Greeks, their treatment of animals, 120; notions of gratitude, 123-124; survival of traits and words, 53, 81, 196, 209, 310; close observers of natural history, 100.
Green colour, in nature, 52; in mankind, 129.
Gregorovius, F., 17, 88, 307. Grottaglie, town, 68, 77-79. Grottole, 77.
Grotto-apparitions, 23, 154. Guiscard, Robert, 137. Gumppenberg, G., 259.
Guiscard, Robert, 137.
Gumppenberg, G., 259.
Haller, C., 53.
Hair-cutting, æsthetics of, 81.
Hamilton, Sir W., 228, 242.
Hannibal, 31, 64, 299.
Harnack, A., 114.
Haseloff, H. E. G., on purple Codex, 114.
Hat of the Virgin Mary, 243, 265.
Haym, N. F., 144.
Hearn, L., 209.
Hehn, V., 222.
Heinsius, D., 175.
Helios, survives as St. Elias, 188.
Hellenic art, its originality explained, 75. See Greeks.
Hepidanus, chronicler, 135.
Hera, temple of. See Column.
Heraclea, 89, 97.
Herbs, lore of, 58; on Mount Pollino, 142-143.
Herculaneum, its buried treasures, 115.
Hercules, 23, 27.
Hermits in Calabria, 111-112.
Herodotus, 175.
Hesiod, 100.
Hippocratic oath, 297.
Hipponium. See Montdeone,
Hohenstaufen, their fate avenged, 6-8.
Home, south Italian feeling for, 179.
Homer, his colour-sense, 52; on dragons, 100, 101; his idea of gifts, 123-124; his “Ore of Temese,” 202.
Homo ibericus, 109.
Horace, 80, 154, 197; on Garganian winds, 21; his house at Venosa, 31; praises the simple life but enjoys good food, 41; the perfect anti-sentimentalist, 42; on Bandusian Fount, 43 seq.; approves of being genially unwise, 46; his duplex ficus, 51; hatred of avarice, 218.
Huillard-Bréholles, I. L. A., 37, 186.
Humanitarians, their ferocity, 312.
Humour in south Italy, 58.
Huxley, T. H., 264.
Hymenæus, 39.
Ibn Alathir, 135.
Ibn Chaldun, 135.
Illegitimate infants, massacre of, 58-59.
“Il Saraceno,” journal, 4.
Imbriani, politician, 108.
Index, Congregation of, 260.
Industrialism, Italian craze for, 48, 148.
Inn-keepers, how to deal with, 106-108.
Innocent IV., 7.
Inquisition, 258, 260.
Intellectual undercurrent in south Italy, 33, 89, 188, 201.
“Interesse” (self-advantage), a guiding motive, 124.
Ionic spirit, traces of, 208; defies religious asceticism, 252.
Iorio, A. di, 51.
Italian government, plays at numbering houses, 20; punishes original ideas, 35.
Italian heritage from Romans, 42, 277.
Italian music, its primitive appeal, 5, 231-232.
Italy, the original district so called, 195.
Jackdaws, discard their voices, 37.
Janace, forest, 146.
Januarius, saint, 249, 251.
Japygia, land of, 68.
Jerome, saint, 153.
Jesuits, 97, 249.
Jesus Christ, how regarded, 248.
Jews, colony at Venosa, 38; at Castrovillari, 122; at Caulonia and elsewhere, 282; change in their race-characteristics, 126.
Johannes a S. Antonio, 162.
Johannes of Longobucco, 202.
John, saint, his blood, 251.
Johnson-Cory, W., 315.
Jones, W. M., on malaria, 290.
Joseph, saint, 250.
Joseph of Copertino, saint, his biographies, 69; feats of aviation, 71-72; takes a passenger, 73; his semi-cretinism, 74; why born in a stable, 75; beatification and penitences, 76, 78.
Justice in south Italy, 278, 279.
Justinus, quoted, 221.
Juvenal, 259.
Kant, E., 310.
Kerrich, Mr., his briar-industry, 270.
Kestrels, fishing for, 129.
Kheir-eddin, pirate, 140.
King and Okey, quoted, 279.
“King Marcone,” brigand, 214.
Kircher, A., quoted, 105.
Kissing, in life and literature, 315.
Knox, John, 310.
Konrad von Hildesheim, quoted, 138.
Labonia, F. M., 202.
“La Cattolica,” church at Stilo, ill.
Lagonegro, town, 147.
Lakes, construction of artificial, 217; created by earthquakes, 285.
Lamartine, A. M., 190.
Lamb, Charles, 14.
Lambton Worm, a dragon, 102.
“Lamenti,” plaints in rime, 140.
Landslides, their destructive frequency, 218; how repaired, 293.
“La Quistione Meridionale,” a book, 278.
Lasor a Varea (Savonarola), 67, 144.
Latin points of view, opposed to Gothic, 42, 266.
Latinisms of speech, survival of, 53.
Latronico, village, 147.
Laurentius, bishop of Sipontum, 17.
Lauria, Roger de, 7, 8.
Law-breaking, unsuspected joys of, 36.
Lear, E., 40, in, 134.
Lefroy, E. C., 315.
Lenormant, F., on Manfredonia, 12; on Trinità abbey, 38; on Sybaris, 115; on Pandosia, 196; on Byzantine colonies, 272; at Bivona, 320; his zest of knowledge, 321.
Leone da Morano, 144.
Leoni, N., 131, 161, 228.
Leoni (government official), 271.
Leo XIII, 263.
Lese, river, 205, 220.
Lesina, 7, 21.
Lewes, G. H., 267.
Ligorio, P., arch-forger, 143.
Liguori, A. di, saint, 256, 257, 259, 260.
“L’ Inglese,” brigand, 212.
Lions of Lucera, 3; of Venosa, 32.
Lipari, island, 276.
Lipuda, river, 197.
Lister, Lord, 312.;
Li Tartari, mountain, 196.
Livy, 197.
Lizard, the emerald, 205.
L’ Occaso, author, 134.
Locri. See Gerace.
Lombroso, C., 128, 278.
Longobucco, 195; its “Hotel Vittoria,” 199, 201; situation, 200; intellectual life, 201; silver mines, 202.
Lorenzo, G. de, 39.
Lorenzo (Lawrence), saint, his dragon-legend, n, 102; his fat, 251.
Louis of France, saint, 7.
Love of noise, a local trait, 53.
Love-affairs, how managed, 84-86.
Lucanians, 197, 221.
Lucca oil, 241.
Lucera, its castle, 2, 6; museum, 3; landscape in spring, 6.
Lucifero, a sacrilegious bishop, 319.
Ludwig II, complains of Saracens, 138.
Luke, saint, paints Madonna portraits at Sipontum, 30; at Caulonia, 282; at Cotrone, 306.
Lupi-Crisafi, author, 228.
Lupoli, M. A., 31, 39.
Luther, his creed repressed, 252.
Luynes, duc de, 186.
Luzard (lynx), an absent-minded beast, 94, 222.
Lycanthropy, epidemic of, 176.
Maccheroni, the art of engulphing, 297.
Macchia, village, 178, 180, 188 seq.
Madonna, declines in artistic worth, 24; her realistic diet, 61; della Fita, 93; acbiropita, 108, 113, 114; del Patir, in; her friendship with St. Nilus, 114; del Castello, 122; della Libera, 140; di Constantinopoli, 140; of Pollino, picnic in honour of, 151 seq.; put up to auction, 156; of Messina, 230, 237; absorbs Greek deities, 247; dell’ Arco, 249; del Soccorso, 249; of Pompei, 249; of the Hens, 250; displaces saint-worship, 248-251; her Sacred Hat, 243, 265; her Milk, 250; increases in popularity, 259, 264; del Carmine, 301.
Maecenas, 41.
Maffei, A., 215.
Magic, instances of sympathetic, 57; imported from Egypt, 58, 251.
Magini, G. A., 97, 175.
Magna Mater, 108, 153, 259.
Mahaffy, J. P., 124.
Maida, plain of, 240, 241.
Malaria, at Manfredonia, 12; at Sipontum, 30; Venosa, 32; Policoro, 98; old Sybaris, 115, 282-283; on Tyrrhenian sea-board, 241; at Focà, 283, 289; at Cotrone, 284, 291, 298; at Cosenza, 287, 291.
Malaria, votive offerings due to, 152; eliminates fair complexion, 225; propagated by deforestation, 32, 286, 287; by artificial irrigation, 241; by migrations of labourers, 284; by recent climatic changes, 285; by earthquake subsidences, 285; follows river-beds, 286; endemic for two thousand years, 283; contributes to decline of old civilizations, 290; ravages among French troops, 241, 287; spread and significance of the disease, 287, 291; methods of combating, 288; results of quinine-policy, 289.
Male selection, among Hellenic races, 209.
Malizia (cleverness), 47, 124.
Mallock, W. H., 265.
Malpica, C., 114.
Mammon, the god of emigrants, 22.
Mammone, brigand, 212.
Manfred, his infatuation for Saracens, 3; fate of his sons, 8 j) his name survives, 45.
Manfredonia, its harbour, II; burnt by Corsairs, 12; wineshops and burglaries, 15.
Manhes, General, his methods, 213, 214; at Bagnara, 242; at Serra, 293.
Manna ash, 93, 121.
Manzi, brigand, 214, 215.
Marafioti, G., 143.
Marbles, on beach at Taranto, 9!; Roman technique of cutting, 92.
Marcellinara, village, 205.
Marcellus, tomb of, 31.
Marchesato, district, 284.
Marchianò, M., 188.
Marchianò, S., 187.
Marcone, N., 243.
Marcus Aurelius, 251.
Margaret, saint, gratifying results of her autopsy, 258.
Marino, poet, 23, 169, 259.
Mariolatry, engenders effeminate saints, 259.
Marincola, L., 139.
Marincola Pistoia, D., 197.
Mark, saint, his church at Rossano, III; displaced by St. Rosalia, 247.
Mars, 27.
Martial, 53, 80.
Martorana, C., 135.
Mary, Virgin. See Madonna.
Masci, A., 176.
Mater Domini, convent, 251.
Matera, town, 138.
Matthew Paris, quoted, 7.
“Mattino,” a venal daily, 303.
Mazzara, town, 93.
Mazzella, Sc., 136.
Mazziotti, Prof. G., 183.
Meander, river, 100.
Medicines, compounded from animals, 57.
Mele, S., 53.
Melfi, town, 38.
Melito, town, 137.
Melliss, J. C., 286.
Mendicino, village, 197.
Mephitis, goddess of malaria, 32.
Mercer, Mr., 278.
Mercury, 26, 27.
Merenzata, river, 197.
Messapians, 65.
Messina, its Fata Morgana, 228; legend of Cola Pesce, 228-229; public gardens, 231; effects of earthquake, 236-239.
Metapontum, 119, 284, 289.
Metchnikoff, E., 68.
Mice, eaten as medicine, 56.
Michael, saint, pre-renaissance relief of, 14; a cave-saint on Gargano, 17; childish and emasculate character, 23-29; affinities with older gods, 23, 26, 27; stripped of his higher attributes, 28; a mere ghost, 29.
Middle Ages, their influence upon dragon-idea, 104.
Milk of the Virgin Mary, 250-251.
“Millionaires” of Acri, 195; of Cotrone, 302.
Milo of Croton, defeats Sybarites, 196; devoured by wolves, 222.
“Milosao,” Albanian rhapsodies, 190, 191.
Milton, indebtedness to S. della Salandra, 160 seq.; to other Italian poets, 169; friendship with Marquis Manzo, 168, 169; manuscripts at Cambridge, 170; his “grand manner,” 171.
Minasi, A., 228.
Minieri-Riccio, C., 160.
Misasi, N., 294.
Mistletoe, on fir-trees, 203.
Mithra, 27, 309.
Moens, Mr., captured by brigands, 214.
Moltedo, F. T., 53.
Mommsen, T., 31.
Monasterace, village, 281.
Monasteries, develop out of hermitages, 112; refuge of brigands, 144, 215.
Monastic orders, competition between, 258.
Mondragone, mountain, 102.
Monk, the Flying. See Joseph of Copertina.
Monnier, M., 215.
“Montagna del Principe,” 123, 144.
Montalto, mountain, 269, 274.
Montanari, G. I., 69, 74.
Monteleone (Hipponium), town, 119, 137, 241.
Monte Nero, 217, 220.
Montorio, S., 114, 259, 264, 282.
Monumentomania, an Italian disease, 4.
Moon, superstitions regarding, 59.
Moore, John, 139.
Morality, to be expressed in physiological terms, 126.
Morano, its great age and greater filth, 128; Saracen memories, 130; its literary glories, 131, 132.
Morelli, T., 177, 272.
Moritz, K. P., 140.
Morone, C., 67.
Morosi, G., 272.
Moscato, author, 135.
Motor services, replace diligence, 123, 225.
Mountains, Italian dislike of, 143.
Movers, F. C., 56.
Mucone (? Acheron), river, 195-197.
Müller, Max, 51.
Müller, Prof., 38.
Münter, F., 229.
Murat, 123, 213, 214.
Muratori, L. A., 13, 135.
Murders, due to wine-bibbing, 244, 246.
Murge hills, 63, 64.
Museum, of Lucera, 3; Taranto, 88; British, 119, 161, 197; of Catanzaro, 224, 226, 316; Reggio, 236.
Mushroom-stone, 93, 222.
Musolino, brigand, 211, 270, 272; his fate, 240; episodes of, 271, 281; a victim of inept legislation, 275, 278.
Mussulman epitaph, 3.
Mutilomania, an Italian disease, 83.
Mythopoetic faculty, blighted by misrule, 100.
Naples, its catacombs, 25, 247; municipality and octroi-system, 34; survival of Hellenic traits at, 53; scandal of Foundling Hospital, 59; camorra, 125; corrupt police-force, 279; its daily press, 303.
Napoleon, protects trees, 218.
Nardo di Pace, village, 292.
Nasi, ex-minister, his trial, 280.
Nau, cape. See Column.
National monuments, neglected, 39.
Neaithos, river. See Neto.
Neri, Filippo, saint, 258.
Neto (Neaithos), river, 205, 206, 219, 220; wine of district, 307; change in landscape, 314.
Newspapers andpublic opinion, 277; characteristics of local,3O3-305.
“New York Times,” on Sybaris, 116.
Nicastro, town, 241.
Niceforo, A., 252.
Nicephoras Phocas, 81, 281.
Niehbuhr, B. G., 272.
Nilus, builder-saint, 114.
Nilus, saint, 105, 108, no.
Nissen, H., 219.
Noepoli, village, 149.
Nola-Molisi, G. B., 298, 320.
Nordau, M., 74.
Normans, buried at Venosa, 38; their behaviour in Sicily, 137.
North, W., 290.
Nowairi, historian, 135.
Nutrition, its effect upon physique and morals, 125-127.
Oaks (Quercus cerris), 222.
Octroi, a mediæval abomination, 34-36, 66, 90.
Odours, susceptibility of natives to, 52, 318.
Oenotrians, a useful tribe, 130.
Okey, T., 279.
Olive oil, export from Palmi, 241.
Oria, town, 65.
Orsini tower, Taranto, 67.
Otter, a rare animal, 184.
Otto II., 135, 292.
Otto-Nove! charm-formula, 310.
Ouida, 45, 120.
Oysters of Taranto, 81.
Pacicchelli, G. B., 12, 208, 282, 294.
Paestum, 119, 137, 283, 285.
Paganism, survival of, 248.
Paleparto, mountain, 196.
Palermo, behaviour of Normans in, 137; metropolis of Saracens, 138; its percentage of homicides, 276.
Pallagorio, village, 315.
Palmi, its oil-industry, 241.
Pandosia, ancient city, 196, 197.
Paoli, Monsieur, 27.
Paracorio, village, 245.
“Paradise Lost,” its presumable prototypes, 160; derived from Salandra’s work, 161 seq.
Parafante, brigand, 241.
Parenti, village, 211.
Parisio, P., 197.
Parrino, D. A., 139.
Pascale, V., 284.
Patir (Patirion), monastery, in, 113-116, 186.
Patriarchalism, its break-up in South Italy, 48 seq.; makes for inefficiency, 226; shattered by judiciary abuses, 275, 279. See Peasantry.
Patrick, saint, 262.
Paul, saint, invoked against poisonous beasts, 138.
Paulinus, bishop, 151, 247.
Peasantry, oppressed by taxes, 35; their virtues and vices, 47; break-up of patriarchal habits, 48, 53; their anthropomorphic language, 50; defective colour-sense, 51-52; their system of nicknames, 54-56; degeneration in culture and modern revival, 57, 58, 97; their destructive avarice, 218. See Emigration.
Pecorara, a rustic dance, 152.
Pelasgic language and race, 187, 189, 191.
Pelicaro, district, 97.
Pellegrini, A., 272.
Penal code of Italy, need for its revision, 276, 278, 279.
Pentedattilo, mountain, 272.
Pepe, G., 298.
Pericles, 152.
Perrey, G., 294.
Persius Flaccus, 284.
Petelia. See Strongoli.
Petelia Policastro, town, 184.
Peter, saint, baptizes natives, 29, 282; legend of, 60.
Petronius, 302.
Pettinascura, mountain, 204, 220.
Peutinger’s Tables, no, 281.
Phædrus, 322.
Phallic cult at Venosa, 40.
Pharmacy-club, how to secure membership, 106.
Pheasants, 96.
Philo Judseus, 251.
Physical conditions affecting race-character, 90, 126.
Piano di Carmelia, upland, 269.
Piedigrotta, festival, 52.
Piè d’ Impisa, mountain, 272.
Pietra-Sasso, a landmark, 148.
Pigs, in streets, 128, 206, 207; their food, 173; can detect werewolves, 176.
Pilgrims, at Lucera, 4; at Sant’ Angelo, 18; their specific odour and capacity for mischief, 19; foul appearance, 27; a debased Christianity, 28; behaviour at Venosa, 40.
Pines, absent in Pollino forests, 146; the Calabrian variety, 196, 204; of Aleppo, 285.
Pious legends, their drawback, 262.
Piracy. See Corsairs and Saracens.
Pitch, the Bruttian, 204, 285, 286.
Pitrè, G., 300.
Platitudes, Italian and English love of, 14.
Plato, quoted, 116; his cloudy philosophy, 311; food for adolescents, 312.
Pleasure, danger of repressing, 153.
Pliny the Elder, 80, 281, 284, 285, 307.
Pococke, R., 121.
Poets, why deficient in humour, 58.
Policoro, forest, 95 seq.; its game, 96; eucalyptus avenue, 97; buffaloes, 99.
Polistena, town, 234.
Pollino, mountain,, 108; derivation of the name, 142; the peak, 143-145; terminates Apennines, 145; its forests, 145-148.
Polybius, 80.
Pompeio, fountain, 196.
Pontanus, humanist, 18.
Ponza, island, 276.
Pope, A., prince of snobs, 127.
Porcupine, approaching extinction, 184.
Potenza, 32.
Potteries of Grottaglie, 78; of Taranto, 92; of Corigliano, 173.
Pratilii, F. M., 143.
Praxiteles, 286.
Preconi, H., 78.
Prehistoric stations in South Italy, 119; weapons, 3, 119, 179, 224.
Priests, parasitic on families, 4; their attitude towards superstitions, 59; their acquisitiveness, 60; a decayed profession, 60, 154; fight on side of brigands, 215; connaisseurs of wine, 3O7-
Privacy, lack of feeling for, 66.
Procida, John of, 8.
Proclus, 285.
Procopius, 109.
Properties, large, their break-up, 96; synonymous with malaria, 289.
Propertius, 80.
Ptolemy, 281.
Public opinion, non-existent, 277.
Puccini, archbishop, recommends fetishism, 26.
Pythagoras, 282; explanation of his popularity, 309; a glorified marabout, 311.
Quinine-policy, governmental. See Malaria.
Race-characters, delusion as to their immutability, 91, 126. Rada, G. de, Albanian prophet, 187; his mystic tendencies, 189; patriotic labours, 190 seq.; his death, 192.
Ragona, village, 292.
Railway stations in Italy, 117, 118.
Rainfall, diminution in, 217, 241, 285, 306.
Rath, G. von, 287.
Rathgeber, G., 175.
Rationalist Congress of 1904, leads to counter-demonstration, 32, 269.
Reggio, 135, 137; effects of earthquake, 234, 236; its cemetery, 235.
Regio, P., 256.
Relics, sacred, 208, 247, 251, 263.
Religion in south Italy, its intense realism, 60; contrasted with English, 265.
Renaissance, injures angelic shapes, 25; produces historical panegyrists, 142; falsifies place-names, 196; imports Pythagoras and Plato, 311.
Rhaetia, its dragons, 104.
Rhetoric, perverts course of justice, 276, 277.
Rhodiginus (Richerius, L. C.), 197.
Ricca, brigand, 211.
Riccardi, A., 155.
Riedesel, J. H., 298.
Rivarol, J. E. A., 212.
Rivers in Calabria, their destructive floods, 99, 197, 286; their numbers, 286; once navigable, 174, 284; arteries of malaria, 286.
Rizzi-Zannone, G. A., 97.
Rizzo, an amiable priest, 109.
Rizzuto, cape, 318.
Robinias, why beloved of municipalities, 83.
Rocca Bernarda, town, 117.
Roccaforte, village, 271, 272.
Rocchetta, station, 31.
Rocella Ionica, town, 274, 286.
Rodotà, P. P., 177, 273.
Roghudi, village, 271, 272.
Rogliano, town, 195, 211.
Romans, their lack of imagination, 32; their pittas, 33; pacification of wild nature, 42; marble-cutting technique, 92; their republican stoicism, 126.
Romanticists, their feeling for nature, 42.
Roque, saint, 39.
Rosalia, saint, 247.
Rosarno, town, 241.
Roscia (Rossano), no.
Rosis, de, no.
Ross, Sir R., 287, 290.
Rossano, accommodation at, 105-108; character of inhabitants, 109; its situation, no; importance under Byzantines, 111.
Rossi, D. A., 69, 71, 74, 77.
Rouse, Dr. W. H. D., 152.
Ruffo, cardinal, 64, 212, 215, 298.
Rusalet, a dance, 178.
Ruscianum (Rossano), 110.
Ruskin, J., 90.
Russell, Lord Odo, 120.
Rutilius Namatianus, 27.
Sagra, river. See Alaro.
Saints, their pathological symptoms, 74; unavoidable lack of originality, 75, 253; male type replaced by females, 247-251; their baroque period, 253-257; manufactured by monks and confessors, 258, 267; mutilated after death, 263; their Bourbon period, 260 seq.
Salandra, S. della, his “Adamo Caduto” inspires ”Paradise Lost,” 160 seq.
Salis Marschlins, U. von, 67, 271.
San Benedetto Ullano, town, 183.
Sanchez, G., 78, 102.
San Cosimo, village, 180.
San Demetrio Corone, its dirty streets, 181; Albanian church, 182; college for boys, 183-185; convent of Sant’ Adriano, 185.
Sandys, G., 121.
San Floro, M., 217.
San Francesco, convent, 77.
San Gervasio, old church and fountain at, 43; fountains identified with Fons Bandusiae, 43-46.
San Giorgio (Apulia), 65.
San Giorgio (Calabria), 176, 180.
San Giovanni in Fiore, 195, 203; its women, 205; unhygienic conditions, 206.
San Nicola, village, 292.
Sanpaulari, snake-killers, 138.
San Severo, town, 6.
San Severino, village, 147, 155
Sant’ Adriano, convent, 185-186.
Sant’ Angelo and its shrine, 17; modern worshippers in the cave, 19, 27-28.
Santa Barbara, upland, 204.
Sant’ Eufemia, village, 240, 243.
Santa Sofia d’ Epiro, village, 180.
Santo Stefano, village, 222, 271.
Santo Stefano, island, 240.
Sappho, 116.
Saracena, village, 131.
Saraceno, mountain, 20.
“Saraceno,” term of abuse, 138.
Saracens, at Lucera, 3; at Gargano, 20; their “black” colour, 52, 130; at Morano, 130; Saracenic survivals, 134, 138; raids into south Italy, 135, 137; their benefits, 136; excesses, 137; contradistinguished from Corsairs, 138.
Sarmento, river, 148.
Sarnelli, P., 29.
Saserna, 285.
Savastano, L., 49.
Savelli, village, 179, 205, 207, 293.
Savonarola, author. See Lasor a Varea.
Savonarola, monk, 309.
Scanderbeg, 65, 176.
Scarolla, brigand, 144.
“Scemo” (soft-witted), the unforgivable sin, 107, 124.
Scheuchzer, J. J., 104.
Schneegans, A., 228.
Schulz, H. W., 39, 202.
Scido, village, 270.
Scilatio, 281.
Scirocco, south wind, its effect upon landscape, io; on character, 90.
Sculco, Dr., 297.
Scylla, 240.
“Sdrago,” the dragon, 104.
Sebethus, river, 80.
“Seicentismo,” blight of south Italy, 252.
Selva Umbra, forest, 21.
Semi-starvation, demoralizing effects of, 41.
Seneca, 251.
Serpents, assimilated with dragons, 100; our early hatred of, 105.
Serra San Bruno, 293, 295.
Servius, 281.
Sheep, and wolves, 221.
Shem, son of Noah, 29.
Shepherds, of Sila, 221; of Cotrone, 301; their kissing propensities, 315.
Sicily, under Saracens, 136; under Normans, 137.
Sigilgaita, 38.
Sila, mountain plateau, its three divisions, 195; the “Greek” Sila, 176; Greater Sila, its landscape, 204; Bruttian inhabitants, 208; compared with Scotland, 219; vegetation, 220; the Lesser Sila, 223.
Silenziario, P., 91.
Silver mines, of Longobucco, 202.
Sin, an export-article, 256.
Sinno, river, 95, 99, 149, 286.
Sinopoli, 240, 243, 244.
Sipontum, its famous church, 29; wholly desolate, 30.
Sirens, as fountain ornaments, 45.
Sirino, mountain, 151.
Siris, ancient city, 95.
Sixtus V, 213, 215.
Slavery, 139.
Snakes, their colour, 52; medicinal uses, 57; destroyed with spittle, 138.
Socialism in Italy, 96.
Soria, F. A., 143.
South Italy, its recent revival, 91, 298.
Soverato, town, 295.
Spanish Viceroys, blighting effects of their rule, 57, 252, 253; enactments against Barbary pirates, 139; conservators of forests, 218.
Spano-Bolani, D., 134.
Spartacus, 214.
Spezzano Albanese, town, 172-174.
Spinazzola, town, 62-64.
Spinelli’s chronicle, a forgery, 3.
Spleen, importance of this organ, 152, 307.
Squillace, town, 135, 295.
Stagno Salso, lake, 21.
Staiti, town, 272. Stamer, W. J. A., 50.
Statius, 80.
Stendhal, quoted, 125, 276.
Stilo, town, in, 292.
Stoics, victims of misfeeding, 126.
Stomach-diseases, prevalence of, 126.
“Stone of Saint Michael,” a fraudulent article, 23, 26.
Strabo, 23, 80, 87, 197, 204, 283, 284.
Strongoli (Petelia), 224, 314, 316.
Sturgeon, caught at Cotrone, 320.
Sugar-cane, formerly cultivated, 136.
Suicides look manly, 84.
Sulphur mines, 315.
Summonte, G. A., 140.
Swammerdam, J., 105.
Swedenborg, E., 310.
Swinburne, A., 116.
Swinburne, H., 78, 115, 319.
Sybaris, 89, 108, 195; its buried wealth, 115; destruction of, 175, 196, 311; presumably malarious of old, 115, 282-283.
Sybaris, river. See Coscile.
Sybarites, contrasted with Byzantine monks, 115.
Symonds, J. A., 115.
Tajani, F., 177.
Talarico, brigand, 214.
Tarantolla, dance, 93.
Taranto, the arsenal quarter, 65-67; its octroi impositions, 66, 90; old town, 67; inland sea, 68, 80, 90; fishermen and barbers, 81; love-making on the Corso, 84; its slumberous inhabitants, 87-90; museum and public library, 88, 89; marbles on the beach, 91.
Tarsia (Caprasia), village, 174, 194; its malaria, 287.
Tassulo, Pilati de, 183, 228.
Taverna, town, 223.
Temese, ore of, 202.
Temples, destruction of, 136, 137. .
Tenore, M., 146.
Termula (Termoli), 137.
Terracciano, N., 145.
Terranova di Pollino, 143, 148.
Terranova di Sibari (Thurii), 175, 282, 283.
Theatine monks, 113.
Theocritus, 8i, 269, 285, 301, 314; his human appeal, 315.
Theodoret, bishop, quoted, 152.
Theophrastus, 285.
Third sex, its significance, 116, 257.
“Thirsty Apulia,” origin of the phrase, 15.
Thucydides, 284, 298.
Thurii. See Terranova ài Sibari.
Timber construction replaced by stone, 12.
Tiriolo, town, 225-226.
Tischbein, J. H. W., 319.
Toledo, Pietro di, 252-253.
Tolù, brigand, 211.
Toppi, N., 144, 162.
Torrent-beds, their charm, 292.
Tortoises, used as medicine, 57.
Tozer, H. F., 104.
Traeis, river. See Trionto.
Treasure, buried at Lucera, 8, 9.
Trede, T., 258.
Tree-planting, discouraged in cities, 65, 66.
Tree-torturing, a southern trait, 83.
Tremiti islands, n.
Trinità, abbey at Venosa, 37-40.
Trinità, column at Taranto, 67.
Trinity, southern conception of, 250.
Trionto (? Traeis), river, 195-200.
Troia, town, 6.
Tromby, B., 294.
Trotter, Prof. A., 223.
Troubadours, their idea of nature, 42.
Truthfulness, a modern virtue, 266.
Tufarelli, G. L., 128, 131, 144.
“Turco,” colour known as, 52.
Tutini, C., 294.
Ughelli, F., 43, 45, 114.
Ulpian, 53.
“Ultramontain,” author, 53.
Urban VIII, 72, 110, 262.
Uromastix lizard, 101.
Uruj, pirate, 140.
Utilitarianism in south Italy, 43, 57, 126, 218.
Vaccarizza, village, 174, 176, 179, 180, 184, 224.
Varrò, 80.
Vatican, authorizes cruelty to animals, 120; attitude towards Byzantinism, 248.
Velasquez, 140.
Venosa, survival of Roman blood and habits, 32; its rustic dirt, 33; castle, 37; abbey of Trinità, 37-40; catacombs, 38; bad food, 41.
Venus, gives name to Venosa, 33; marble head of, 92.
Verace, watershed, 195, 196, 204.
Verde antico, marble, 91.
Vespoli, G. F., 298.
Viceregal period. See Spanish Viceroys.
Vieste, village, 7, 21.
Viggianello, village, 157.
Vigilantius of Marseilles, 153.
Villa Beaumont, Taranto, 83.
Villari, P., 191.
Vincolo forestale, its provisions disregarded, 218.
Virgil, 42, 46, 80, 284, 285.
“Virtù,” retains antique meaning, 53.
Vitiello, night-quarters at, 149-150.
Vito, saint, struggles with Madonna, 92.
Voltaire, 76, 170, 262.
Votive offerings, 152.
Vulture (Gyps fulvus), 184.
Vulture, mountain, 2, 13, 21, 32, 41.
Vulturnus wind, 41, 53.
Wagner, J. J., 104.
Waiblinger, F. W., 141.
Waldensian colonies, 122.
Waldstein, Sir C., 115.
Wantley, dragon of, 102.
Wedding, an Albanian, 182.
Wedding-present, a civilized, 89.
Werewolves, 176.
Wine, of Sant’ Angelo, 22; Venosa, 41; Bova, 273; of Calabria, 306-307.
Witchcraft, 58.
Wolves, at Pollino, 149; in Sila, 220-222; at Cotrone, 318. Women, of San Giovanni, 205; respected among non-Hellenic races, 208; superstitions regarding, 209; of coast-towns, 299.
Wood-pigeon, 269.
Xenocrates, quoted, 252.
Yoni-worship, at Venosa, 40.
Zavarroni, A., 93, 183.
Zicari, F., his literary record, 161; on “Paradise Lost,” 161-168.
“Zodiaco di Maria,” exemplifies Catholic paganism, 259.
Zoophilomania, an English disease, 120.