Old Calabria

by Douglas, Norman; Keates, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9781842124604
• ISBN10: 1842124609
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Sterling Pub Co Inc

Summary

When Norman Douglas visited Calabria, Italy in the early years of the 20th century, its wild, secluded, and enigmatic country attracted little interest and few tourists. But Douglas never followed the already-traveled path, and so, we have this classic in which he wittily escorts us from the promontory of Gargano to the tip of Aspromonte, and through the influences of many invaders. Elegant and literary, this remarkable travel book stands in a class of its own.

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(10)
Jonathan Keates
Saracen Lucera	17	(8)
Manfred's Town	25	(6)
The Angel of Manfredonia	31	(6)
Cave-worship	37	(8)
Land of Horace	45	(6)
At Venosa	51	(4)
The Bandusian Fount	55	(6)
Tillers of the Soil	61	(14)
Moving Southwards	75	(9)
The Flying Monk	84	(6)
By the Inland Sea	90	(10)
Molle Tarentum	100	(8)
Into the Jungle	108	(5)
Dragons	113	(5)
Byzantinism	118	(12)
Reposing at Castrovillari	130	(11)
Old Morano	141	(6)
African Intruders	147	(8)
Uplands of Pollino	155	(9)
A Mountain Festival	164	(9)
Milton in Calabria	173	(13)
The 'Greek' Sila	186	(9)
Albanians and their College	195	(7)
An Albanian Seer	202	(5)
Scrambling to Longobucco	207	(9)
Among the Bruttians	216	(9)
Calabrian Brigandage	225	(5)
The Greater Sila	230	(11)
Chaos	241	(12)
The Skirts of Montalto	253	(7)
Southern Saintliness	260	(21)
Aspromonte, the Cloud-gatherer	281	(6)
Musolino and the Law	287	(6)
Malaria	293	(7)
Caulonia to Serra	300	(8)
Memories of Gissing	308	(7)
Cotrone	315	(6)
The Sage of Croton	321	(5)
Midday at Petelia	326	(4)
The Column	330	(6)
Map	336	(3)
Index	339