Race-characters, delusion as to their immutability, 91, 126. Rada, G.
de, Albanian prophet, 187; his mystic tendencies, 189; patriotic
labours, 190 _seq.;_ his death, 192.
Ragona, village, 292.
Railway stations in Italy, 117, 118.
Rainfall, diminution in, 217, 241, 285, 306.
Rath, G. von, 287.
Rathgeber, G., 175.
Rationalist Congress of 1904, leads to counter-demonstration, 32, 269.
Reggio, 135, 137; effects of earthquake, 234, 236; its cemetery, 235.
Regio, P., 256.
Relics, sacred, 208, 247, 251, 263.
Religion in south Italy, its intense realism, 60; contrasted with
English, 265.
Renaissance, injures angelic shapes, 25; produces historical
panegyrists, 142; falsifies place-names, 196; imports Pythagoras and
Plato, 311.
Rhaetia, its dragons, 104.
Rhetoric, perverts course of justice, 276, 277.
Rhodiginus (Richerius, L. C.), 197.
Ricca, brigand, 211.
Riccardi, A., 155.
Riedesel, J. H., 298.
Rivarol, J. E. A., 212.
Rivers in Calabria, their destructive floods, 99, 197, 286; their
numbers, 286; once navigable, 174, 284; arteries of malaria, 286.
Rizzi-Zannone, G. A., 97.
Rizzo, an amiable priest, 109.
Rizzuto, cape, 318.
Robinias, why beloved of municipalities, 83.
Rocca Bernarda, town, 117.
Roccaforte, village, 271, 272.
Rocchetta, station, 31.
Rocella Ionica, town, 274, 286.
Rodotà, P. P., 177, 273.
Roghudi, village, 271, 272.
Rogliano, town, 195, 211.
Romans, their lack of imagination, 32; their _pittas,_ 33; pacification
of wild nature, 42; marble-cutting technique, 92; their republican
stoicism, 126.
Romanticists, their feeling for nature, 42.
Roque, saint, 39.
Rosalia, saint, 247.
Rosarno, town, 241.
Roscia (Rossano), no.
Rosis, de, no.
Ross, Sir R., 287, 290.
Rossano, accommodation at, 105-108; character of inhabitants, 109; its
situation, no; importance under Byzantines, 111.
Rossi, D. A., 69, 71, 74, 77.
Rouse, Dr. W. H. D., 152.
Ruffo, cardinal, 64, 212, 215, 298.
_Rusalet,_ a dance, 178.
Ruscianum (Rossano), 110.
Ruskin, J., 90.
Russell, Lord Odo, 120.
Rutilius Namatianus, 27.