Commercial travellers, an objectionable brood, 31, 296.
Comparetti, D., 272.
Condofuri, village, 272.
Confessors and penitents, 258.
Conradin, 7-8.
_Contranome,_ the Happy Hazards of, 54-56.
_Controra,_ the ominous hour, 321.
Cook, Eliza, 180.
Cookery, English contrasted with Italian, 125.
“Co-operation,” a local journal, 206.
Copertino, town, 71.
Corace, river, 195.
Coral fisheries, abandoned, 286.
Corigliano, town, 96, 115, 173, 184, 191.
Coronelli, V., 175.
Corsairs, destroy Manfredonia, 12; contrasted with Saracens, 138; their
destructiveness, 139; depopulate sea-board, 140; crushed by steam, 141.
Corsi, F., 91.
Cortese, Prof., 270.
Coscile (Sybaris), river, 122, 172, 175.
“Cose di Puglie,” a remarkable book, 89.
Cosenza, Saracenism at, 134, 135; a pleasant town, 160; corrupt
administration of, 193; described by Pacicchelli, 208; intellectual
record and malaria, 287, 291.
Costanza, Queen, 7, 8.
Costanzo, A., 3.
Costumes, female, of Morano, 130; of Albanian colonies, 152-153, 178,
182; of San Giovanni, 205-206; of Tiriolo, 225.
Cotrone (Croton), 135, 207; its former size, 283; marshy surroundings,
286; recent revival, 297; lack of rainfall, 305.
Cotronei, 184.
Cotton-plant, 136. .
Courier, P. L., _quoted,_ 212.
Cows, shod for threshing corn, 121; their milk disparaged, 149; in the
Sila, 220; resuscitated from death, 261; of Cotrone, 301.
Crati (Crathis), river, 108, 213, 287; its “deluge,” 174; change of
course, 175; legend of, 197.
Craven, Keppel, 80, 95, 294.
Crimes committed by brigands, 212, 215.
Crispi, F., 191.
“Cristiano,” origin of term, 138.
Croce Greca, a landmark, 195.
Cropolati, village, 198.
Crossbills, 205.
Cruelty to animals, 120.
Cryptomerias, futile love of, I, 83.
Cuma;, 119.
Cuomo, A., 264.
Cuomo Library, Naples, 67.
Cysat, J. L., 104.
Date-palm, 83, 136.
D’Azeglio, _quoted,_ 217.
Death-penalty, preface of civilization, 276.
Decentralization of south Italy, 194, 250, 303.
Deforestation, impairs climate and national character, 12-13; fosters
malaria, 32, 286; in Apulia, 44; at Castrovillari, 121; in Pollino
region, 147-148; in “Greek” Sila, 180, 195; in Greater Sila, 207, 217,
218, 223; diminishes water-supply, 180, 217; in Crati-valley, 287.
Deities, sullied by vulgar contact, 24; must be plastic to survive, 25.
Delianuova, town, 240, 241, 245, 274.
_Delizie Tarentine,_ 80.
Deluge, legend of, 174.
Democritus of Abdera, 312.
Demon of Midday, 321.
Demosthenes, 27, 279.
Deputy, my friend the Roman, on the need of employing employes, 20;
discusses octroi officials, 34; how to manage the bourgeoisie, 87;
disapproves of English methods, 117-119.
Devil, his perennial popularity, 25; his honesty, 266.
Diabetic tendency inherent in all gods, 25.
Diehl, C., 108, 186.
Dieting, improper, responsible for moral delinquencies, 126-127.
Diomed, city-founder, 29.
“Dog-eyed,” opprobrious epithet, too, 120.
Dogs, eaten as medicine, 57; their diet and appearance, 119; Greek
attitude towards, 120.
Dolcedorme, mountain-range, 108, 142, 143.
Dolomieu, C. de, 234.
_Domicilio coatto,_ system of, 276.
Dominican monks, 252, 258, 259.
Dorsa, V., 310.
_Draco volans._ See _dragon._
Dragonara, Dragoneria, 112.
Dragone, rivulet, 100.
Dragon, synonymous with serpent, 100; possible prototypes in nature,
101; an animistic conception, 102; dragon-attributes and shapes, 103;
recent degeneration of, 104.
Duret de Tavel, on game in Calabria, 95; on brigands, 202, 212.
Earth-movements, 284-285.
Earthquakes, injure Venosa, 31, 38; Rossano, 113; Reggio and Messina,
230-239; Bagnara, 242; Sant’ Eufemia, 243; Bova, 273; their effect on
coast-line, 285. Eboli, C. d’, 256.
Ecclesiastics under Bourbons, prodigious numbers of, 212.
Edrisius, _quoted,_ 109, 286, 298.
Education, Italian ideas on, 185.
Eels, resuscitated from death, 261.
Egidio, saint, 260-264.
Elba, island, 240.
Elia Junior, saint, in.
Elia Spelaeotes, saint, 111-112.
Elias, saint, displaces Helios, 188.
Elvira, Council of, 153.
Emigrants to America, their wine-bibbing propensities and intelligence,
21-22; other characteristics, 146, 209.
Emigration, reduces population, 28, 49, 209; its effect on the race,
48, 50, 97, 194, 210; breaks up big properties, 289.
English government, encourages brigandage, 212,
Englishmen, considered savages, 5.
English mentality, contrasted with Italian, 66, 91, 117, 123, 124, 179,
248, 265, 311.
English travellers in south Italy, 181, 280.
Ennius, 79.
Envy, prevalent native vice, 126, 127, 129.
Ephesus, synod of, 259.
Epictetus, 251.
Erasmus, 264.
Eros, degenerates into Cupid, 25.
Esaro, river (i), 172.
Esaro, river (2), 297.
Espedito, saint, 4.
Eucalyptus trees, a scandalous growth, 97, 98.
Euprassius, protospadarius of Calabria, 111.
Evelyn, John, 136.
Exmouth, Lord, 139.
Eye-like appearance of fountains, originates dragon-legends, 100.
Fabbrizia, town, 292, 293.
Fair complexion, at Venosa, 33; prejudice against, 209; eliminated by
malaria, 225.
Falcone, N., 161.
Fallistro, mountain, 196.
Fallow-deer, now extinct, 95, 146.
Family, south Italian sense of, 124, 179, 279.
_Fare figura,_ an Italian trait, 65.
Fata Morgana, 228.
Ferdinand, king, 140, 212.
Ferdinand the Catholic, 122.
Ferdinandea, upland, 292.
Festivals, nocturnal, 153.
Feudal conditions in Calabria, 97; re-creation of, 316.