tion>Henry Festing Jones
Castellinaria, and Other Sicilian Diversions
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066210762
Table of Contents
CHAPTER III MARIONETTISTS AT HOME
CHAPTER VI THE ESCAPE FROM PARIS
CHAPTER VII THE BUFFO’S HOLIDAY
CHAPTER XIII OMERTÀ AND THE MAFIA
CHAPTER XXII O FOUNTAIN ARETHUSE
PREFACE
It is probable that every book contains, besides misprints, some statements which the author would be glad to modify if he could. In Chapter V of Diversions in Sicily it is stated that the seating arrangements of the marionette theatre in Catania would be condemned by the County Council, which I believe to be correct, but, on visiting the theatre since, I find I was wrong in saying that there are no passages; I did not see them on my first visit because the audience hid them.
Again, in Chapter XVI it is stated that Giovanni Grasso enters in the third act of La Morte Civile, whereas he enters in the second act. I have since seen the play several times, and, though
