Old Calabria: (Norman Douglas Classics Collection) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781508700678)

One or two relics from this castle are preserved in the small municipal museum, founded about five years ago. Here are also a respectable collection of coins, a few prehistoric flints from Gargano, some quaint early bronze figurines and mutilated busts of Roman celebrities carved in marble or the recalcitrant local limestone. A dignified old lion--one of a pair (the other was stolen) that adorned the tomb of Aurelius, prastor of the Roman Colony of Luceria--has sought a refuge here, as well as many inscriptions, lamps, vases, and a miscellaneous collection of modern rubbish. A plaster cast of a Mussulman funereal stone, found near Foggia, will attract your eye; contrasted with the fulsome epitaphs of contemporary Christianity, it breathes a spirit of noble resignation: -

Author: Norman Douglas
ISBN-10: 1508700672
ISBN-13: 9781508700678
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 03/02/2015
Pages: 422
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.86d