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Old Calabria: (Norman Douglas Classics Collection)

Old Calabria: (Norman Douglas Classics Collection)

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General Fiction

ISBN10: 1508700672
ISBN13: 9781508700678
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 2 2015
Pages: 422
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.86 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
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: -

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