Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . ANCIENT AND MODERN ON AN ERRAND. and even late into the night. No one is troubled by cares for the morrow ; no one ismoved by the world-shaking question of the day. A sort of divine carelessness reignsin every mind. And this carelessness reaches to such a degree that the people will 366 ITALY. sell their most necessary possessions, their very beds, in order to enjoy a festa, or abanquet. This light-mindedness is exhibited in its extremest form among the race ofLazzaroni—the razza lazzarona. The real Lazzarone has passed through the school of Dio
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . ANCIENT AND MODERN ON AN ERRAND. and even late into the night. No one is troubled by cares for the morrow ; no one ismoved by the world-shaking question of the day. A sort of divine carelessness reignsin every mind. And this carelessness reaches to such a degree that the people will 366 ITALY. sell their most necessary possessions, their very beds, in order to enjoy a festa, or abanquet. This light-mindedness is exhibited in its extremest form among the race ofLazzaroni—the razza lazzarona. The real Lazzarone has passed through the school of Diogenes, and the philosophicalschools of the Cynics, and has brought nothing away with him save his basket, with whichhe earns (when he does earn!), and in which he dwells and sleeps like his great prototypein the famous tub. His clothing consists of a shirt, never changed, of a pair of shortbreeches bound round his middle by a leathern belt, and a woollen cap which once, manyyears ago, was red. His ornaments are a number of amulets, and medallions with theimage
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