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Excerpt from Popular Customs, Sports, and Recollections of the South of Italy Most of the subjects were suggested by the designs of Bartolommeo Pinelli. With a few exceptions, the papers were written from memory. They are the recollections of what I saw and heard in the South of Italy, between the years 1816 and 1827, and more particularly among the pea santry and common people. They relate, almost entirely, to matters which seem to be considered as too trivial to merit the attention of writing tourists, and which are not easily to be learned by the hasty traveller along the highroads, or by any one 'that does not wander into nooks and corners, and live much among the people of the country. Few. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.