Capitolo 29
it is poor, ignorant, superstitious, rather wild, but kind, hospitable,
and generally honest. If you desire to study them more from nearby goes, to
one of the villages in the province of Frosinone, toward the
Neapolitan frontier. You cross the plans that malaria has done dark
loneliness the stone run of which he/she painfully leaves without breath on the side, take
the mountain. You will come to a city of five or ten thousand souls,
what few is more than a dormitory for five or ten thousand
farmers. Seen by a distance, this city of country almost has a
great aspect. The dome of a church, a series of monastic buildings,
the tower of a feudal castle, runs over him with a certain air of
importance. A troop of women is coming down to the fountain with
copper vases on their heads. You instinctively smile. Here
movement and the life. Enter! You are stricken with a feeling of the coldness,
damp and the obscurity. The roads are narrow flights of footsteps that
sometimes dips under of low arcs. The houses are closed,
and it seems to have been being abandoned for the one century. Not a human being to the
doors, or to the windows. The roads, silent and solitary.
You would imagine that the curse of sky was fallen on the country,
but for the great placards on the house-foreheads that try that
fathers of missionary have passed through the place. "_Viva Gesù! Long live
Maria! The blood of Jesus live! The cor of Maria live! Swearers,
keep silent you for the love of Maria!_"
These devotional sentences are as so many poster of the public
simplicity.
A quarter of the walk of a hour brings her to the principal to straight angle.
Mean-a-dozen that civil officers are made to sit in a circle of forehead to a coffee,
opening to each other. You connect them. They ask Them her news of
anything that a dozen of years is happened ago. You ask to them to turn, that that
has epidemic depopulated the country?
During the thirty market-man and women they start to expose on the
flooring an assortment of fruit and vegetables. Where the buyers it is