Capitolo 32
If you saw them in the whole ardour of their simplicity, you owe
you visit the city in the day of a great party. Each, men, women,
and children are dressing again wicker to the church. A carpet of flowers is shed
along the road. Every expression is burning with excitement. What is
his meaning everybody? Doesn't he/she know?--It is the party of Sant'
Anthony. A musical Mass is finished in honour of the Anthony of Sant.
A great procession is formed in honour of that Saint, probably
the patron of the place. There are the small boys him disguised as angels,
and men ordered in the sack-as garment of their brotherhoods: here
we have farmers of Heart of _The of Jesus_; here, those of Name of _The of
Mary_; and here it comes to Souls of _The of Purgatory_. The procession is
formed with some small confusion. The people embrace each other,
upsets each other, and you fight with each other--all in the name of
The Anthony of Sant. But sees! The statue of the worthy Saint is going out
of the church: a wood doll, with blazing red cheeks. _Victoria_! Street
go the petards! The women cry with joy--his/her children cry out to the
top of their acute voices, "_Viva Sant Antonio_!" There is at night
artificial fires: a ball moulded in the semblance of the Saint ascends among
the cries of the people and bursts in the great right of style on the
church. Verily, unless the Anthony of Sant is very difficult to arrange, this way
homage has to go right to its heart. And I should think the plebeians
of the a lot of country demanding, if, after such intoxicating party,
they was to complain of lacking bread.
I/you/he/she allow us to look for a small rest on the other side of the Apennines.
Even if the population cannot sufficiently be protected by a chain,
of mountains, you will find in the cities and villages the stuff for a
noble nation. Still ignorance is very great; the blood never
boiling, and the hand never rapid; but we already find men that reason.
If the worker of the cities is not successful, him diviner the reason;
he looks for a remedy, he looks in before, him ago economy. If the tenant is