Mediaeval Sicily, aspects of life and art in the middle ages . did official residence of the Arabswere long found, embedded in convent buildingsor the trees of large market gardens, in the hap-hazard medieval way; but the Kalsa—whichremained Arabian long after it had ceased to beprofessedly Mohammedan—is still surrounded byinvisible walls. The population live a life apart,gathered in little family groups, the young womenbusied with fine embroidery, the very old withtwisting rope of the leaves of the cerfuglione (wildpalmetto), one of the children minding the pot, innarrow alleys thickly festoo
Mediaeval Sicily, aspects of life and art in the middle ages . did official residence of the Arabswere long found, embedded in convent buildingsor the trees of large market gardens, in the hap-hazard medieval way; but the Kalsa—whichremained Arabian long after it had ceased to beprofessedly Mohammedan—is still surrounded byinvisible walls. The population live a life apart,gathered in little family groups, the young womenbusied with fine embroidery, the very old withtwisting rope of the leaves of the cerfuglione (wildpalmetto), one of the children minding the pot, innarrow alleys thickly festooned aloft with gaymulticoloured clothes-lines, or in sunny unpavedirregular courts, still surrounded by low houses ofthe old type with outside staircases ; some white,others pink, blue, or pale yellow. The men aremostly fishermen ; they do not as a rule take theirwives from among the women of other talk of going to Palermo when businesstakes them into the centre of the city—as theystill do, also, in the Borgo, as the lower part of288 I,XV. [j^H^.. :-*^»^i^tj; KlSlllvKMAXS llOlSi: IN TllK (jlAKTKK /. CSH MEDIAEVAL PALERMO the old Seralcadio or Northern Borgo is nowcalled. The upper part of the Northern Borgo, the AsSaqalibah of ibn Hauqal, was later known as theTranspapyretum or the Seralcadl, or Shera of theCadi, who presumably had a palace there. Thisname, modified to Seralcadio, gradually became thename of the whole Borgo, all the way down to theport; with one or two sub-names which need notdetain us here. It was early (in Arab times) peopled by coloniesof traders and merchants from Venice, Pisa and theLevant (according to Amari, As Saqalibah signifiesthe Quarter of the Schiavoni, or Levantines). Thefirst Amalfitani seem to have settled in the Cassaroand contributed, by their displays, to the splendourof the red-paved Via Marmorea or As Simatmentioned by Edrisi. There are mentions of aVicus Amalfitanorum Vetus in the Cassaro. When Hu
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