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Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. The afternoon sun crept into the Piazzetta dei Banchi Nuovi, broadening from Cardone's, the engraver, to Cappa's, the chemist, lengthening on from there up the whole Santa Chiara Road, spreading a light of unusual gaiety over the street, which always wears, even in its most frequented hours, a frigid, claustral aspect. But the great morning traffic, of people coming from the northern districts of the town-Avvocata, Stella, San Carlo all' Arena, San Lorenzo-to go down to the lower quarters of Porto, Pendino and Mercato, or vice versâ, had been slowly slackening since mid-day; the coming and going of carts, carriages and pedlars had ceased; everybody seemed to be taking short cuts by the Chiostro di Santa Chiara and the Vico 1o Foglia towards Mezzocannone Alley, the Gesù Nuovo, San Giovanni Maggiore. Presently the sun's brightness lit up a street by then quite deserted. The shopkeepers on the right side of Santa Chiara-as the left side is only the high, dark enclosure wall of the Poor Clares' Convent-dealers in old dusty or wretched mean new furniture, coloured engravings, shiny oleographs, wooden and stucco saints, were at the back of their dark shops, eating over a corner of wine-stained tablecloth, with a caraffe of Marano small wine, closed by a twisted vine-leaf, standing by a big dish of macaroni. The porters, seated on the ground at the shop entrance, were eating lazily at a small loaf of bread, cut in two to hold some tasty viand-fried gourd soaked in vinegar, parsnips in green sauce, pomegranates seasoned with vinegar, garlic and pepper. The sharp, greasy smell of the quantity of tomatoes all this macaroni was cooked in, from one end of the street to the other, mingled with the acute odour of sour vinegar and coarse spices. From some passing fruitseller, carrying a nearly empty basket of figs on his head, or pushing a barrow with purple plums, and tough spotted peaches at the bottom of the baskets, the shopkeepers, clerks and porters, lips still red from tomatoes or shining with grease, bargained for a penny-worth of fruit, to finish their meal; two workmen, in front of the Martello printing-shop, where the small visiting-card press had stopped, deeply coveted a yellow melon; and two seamstresses were waiting on a doorstep chattering, till the seller of pizza passed, which is the shredded rind of tomato, garlic, and wild marjoram, cooked in the oven, and sold at a farthing, a half-penny, a penny, the piece. Digital Content>E-books>Fiction>Fiction>Fiction, Matilde Serao Digital >16<

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The Land of Cockayne written by Matilde Serao who was a Greek-born Italian journalist and novelist. This book was published in 1901. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this wor… Mehr…

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Matilde Serao (1856–1927) wrote the novel The Land of Cockayne in 1901 as a fictional study of the passion for gambling and the evil effect of the national lottery in Naples on all … Mehr…

Matilde Serao (1856–1927) wrote the novel The Land of Cockayne in 1901 as a fictional study of the passion for gambling and the evil effect of the national lottery in Naples on all classes of society. It is the joy and curse of the main characters Marquis di Formosa, the glove-maker Gaetano, or the factory girl Carmela and her insolent lover Raffaele. Digital Content>E-books>Fiction>Fiction>Fiction, Matilde Serao Digital >16<

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