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Title: Plain-towns of Italy : the cities of old Venetia
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Williams, Egerton R. (Egerton Ryerson), b. 1873 Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Cities and towns
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co. Cambridge (Mass.) : Riverside Press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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nding passages above. The house was full ofguests from neighboring towns, who made the cor-ridors reecho with their continuous shouting, — thepeasants customary tone of conversation; and Ilearned that a bicycle-meet was to occur here on themorrow, the participants riding in battalions fromtheir respective villages. After a dinner in companywith various gentlemen who ate with their hats on(according to the peasants manner), consumedalarming quantities of meat and macaroni with thesole aid of their knives, and roared continuously ateach other with deafening bellows, I solaced mynerves with some caffe nero at a sidewalk table inthe main piazza; and then found a cinematographexhibition, which gave a performance of five numbersfor the modest sum of thirty centesimi, in the firstclass. Moving pictures are now the one great amusementof the Italians. There is hardly a town so small asnot to possess at least one such show; and the pricesare usually twenty centesimi for the. second class. y^M
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BASSANO 143 thirty or forty for the first. ^ Here the national loveof tragedy is prominently manifested; the popularpiece must have plenty of blood-letting, and aboveall a harrowing j^m5, that leaves most of the charac-ters upon the ground. Especially successful this even-ing was the story of Parasina; when it ended with thedeath of herself and Ugo upon the block, a united sighof satisfaction arose from the excited populace. Theconcluding number, as always, was supposed to bevery funny — *comicissima, — and consisted of theusual chase of one person by many others, at whoseclearly intentional tumbles the audience roared withdelight. I had an unsuccessful night, disturbed until 4 or 5A.M. by a tremendous carousal in the eating-roomsbelow, constantly increased by new arrivals, — shoutsand songs alternating with speeches, that invariablywound up with the modern Italian imitation of theAnglo-Saxon cheer, — a languid Eep! — Eep! —Urrah! — that sounded as if it pained the deliv

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