Barbarossa, pirate-brothers, 140.
Barbers, their Hellenic loquacity, 81-82.
Bari, compared with Taranto, 89.
Barletta, town, II.
Baronius, cardinal, 258.
Barrius, his _philopatria,_ 142; on Calabrian rivers, 286.
Bartels, J. H., 123.
Earth, Dr. H., 306.
Bartholomaeus, saint, 108.
Basile, A., 69.
Basilean monks, their convents, in, 113; supplanted by Benedictines,
113; their ideals, 115; convent of St. Adrian, 185.
Basilicata, province, emigration from, 49; military road through, 123;
old boundary of, 145; its bagpipes, 151, 155.
Batiffol, P., 113, 186, 272.
Bears in Calabria, 94, 146.
Beatrix, princess, 7, 8.
Beccaria, C. de, 276.
Beccarini family, 13.
Beeches at Pollino, 146; in old Latium, 285.
Bellerophon, a dragon-slayer, 102.
Belmonte, prince, 49.
Beltrano, O., 114.
Benedict XIII, no.
Benedict, saint, 252.
Benedictines, their architecture, 39; displace Basileans, 113,
Beneventana, 29.
Benincasa, Venerable Orsola, 255-256, 258.
Benincasa, brigand, 213.
Benjamin of Tudela, 81, 136.
Benoth (Venus), 33.
Bernard, saint, 250.
Bernardo da Rogliano, biography of, 144.
Bernhardi, Prof., 3.
Bertaux, E., 39, 78, in, 186.
_Biblioteca Calabra_ in Naples, 93.
Birds, how to diminish slaughter of, 52; eaten raw, 56.
Bisignano, town, 135, 194.
Bivona, town, 320.
Black colour, of Saracens, 52, 130; of water, 80.
Blaev, J., 67.
Blake, W., 190.
Blanc, Jos., 53.
Blood-letting, popular treatment of disease, 194.
Blue, deficient colour-sense for, 51, 52.
Boccaccio, 80, 260.
Boccara, V., 228.
Boemund, 38.
Boissier, G., 46.
Bollandists, in.
Bonghi, R., statesman, 4.
Bordeaux, royal duel at, 8.
Borgia, village, 293.
Borjès, J., 215.
Botta, C., _quoted,_ 122.
Botte Donato, mount, 122.
Bourbons, their treatment of prisoners, n; persecute Albanians, 177,
183; protectors of forests, 218; their ecclesiastics and saints, 212,
260; conditions of Calabria under, 97, 298. See _Brigandage._
Bourget, P., 296.
Bova, town, 241, 245, 272-273.
Bovio, G., statesman, 4.
Bradano, river, 286.
Breakfast in Italy, dislocates moral stability, 18, 125; responsible
for homicides, 127.
Briar (bruyère), manufacture of pipes, 269.
Brigands, at Venosa, 34; Longobucco, 202; in the Sila, 211 _seq.;_
pensioned by Bourbons, 214; their crimes, 212, 215; their wealth, 215;
interview with one, 245.
Brigandage, extent of evil, 144; fostered by the church, 144, 215; by
Bourbons, 203, 212, 214, 215; by English, 212; its political character,
211, 214; repression of, 212-215.
“Bronze of Siris,” 197.
Bruno, Giordano, 269.
Bruno, physician of Longobucco, 202.
Bruttians, misrepresented, 197; their characteristics, 208; respect for
women, 209; reputation for bloodthirstiness, 210.
Buchholtz, H., 190.
Buckle, H. T., 90.
Buffaloes at Policoro, 99.
Bugliari, bishop, 183.
Bugs, their medicinal properties, 105.
Burial, premature, 300.
Burnous, surviving in Italy, 20.
Byzantines, at Gargano, 17; a period of revival, in; their convents,
113, 186; survive in Aspramente, 272-274; confused with Albanians, 176,
272.
Caietanus, O., 111.
“Calabrere” fur, 222.
Calabria, used to include Apulia, 89; its great men and natural
attractions, 93; wild animals, 94; its inns, 106; race-character of
natives, 109; their hardiness, 209; their philosophical bent, 291;
inhabited before the flood, 119; situation of inland towns, i io, 200;
their squalor, 128,206; older descriptions of, 134, 142; English
travellers in, 181; modern French researches, 186;
changeinlandscapeandclimate, 219, 241, 284-287; its rivers, 286;
wistfulness of scenery, 320. See _Malaria._
Calamo, river, 196.
_Calascione Scordato,_ a poem, 131.
Calendaro, river, io, 21.
Calypso, island, 284, 319.
Camorra, 57, 125, 279.
Campanella, T., philosopher, 282, 292.
_Campanula fragilis,_ 225.
Campo di Bova, upland, 272.
Campo Tenese, village, 123.
Cantù, C., 190.
Capaccio, bishop of, 212.
Capasso, B., 3.
Capialbi, V., 136, 320.
Capmartin de Chaupy, on Bandusian Fount, 43-45.