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The Humour of Italy

by Alice Werner

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  1. 1Introduction
  2. 2The Poet Complains of Unreasonable Friends
  3. 3Calandrino Finds the Stone Heliotrope
  4. 4Story of Dante and the Smith
  5. 5Messer Bernabò and the Miller
  6. 6How Ser Nastagio Was Collected for in Church
  7. 7How a Barrister Got His Money’s Worth
  8. 8The Merry Jests of Buffalmacco the Painter
  9. 9Chorus From “La Mandragola”
  10. 10Fra Timoteo’s Monologue — Fra Timoteo (Alone)
  11. 11The Mediæval Undergraduate
  12. 12A Roman Prelate of 1519
  13. 13The Valley of Lost Lumber
  14. 14The Poet to His Patron
  15. 15Benvenuto Cellini Offends the Pope
  16. 16He Rescues a Fool From Drowning
  17. 17Opening Stanzas of “The Rape of the Bucket”
  18. 18The Call to Arms
  19. 19The Assembly of the Gods
  20. 20Praises of the Wine of Montepulciano
  21. 21From a Letter to Pier Maria Baldi
  22. 22Pulcinella’s Duel — Colbrand and Pulcinella (Both Armed)
  23. 23A Bergamasc Peter Peebles
  24. 24How to Succeed in Literature
  25. 25A Fable
  26. 26King Teodoro and His Creditors. From the Comic Opera, “Il Re Teodoro”
  27. 27The Poet Promises to Pay His Creditor — When He Has Money
  28. 28Didymus, the Cleric, on the Italian Universities
  29. 29The First Hour and the Sun
  30. 30Fashion and Death
  31. 31The Poet on Tramp
  32. 32Love and a Quiet Life. From “L’Amor Pacifico”
  33. 33Instructions to a Young Aspirant for Office
  34. 34Letter to Tommaso Grossi
  35. 35Don Abbondio and the Bravoes. From “I Promessi Sposi”
  36. 36The Interrupted Wedding
  37. 37Our Children
  38. 38Stray Thoughts of an Idler
  39. 39Men and Instruments
  40. 40The Delights of Journalism
  41. 41When Greek Meets Greek
  42. 42The Famous Tenor, Spalletti
  43. 43Rival Earthquakes
  44. 44Quacquarà
  45. 45The Excavations of Mastro Rocco
  46. 46The War of the Saints
  47. 47His Reverence
  48. 48Padron ’Ntoni’s Politics
  49. 49Mastro Peppe’s Magic
  50. 50A Day in the Country
  51. 51The Theorem of Pythagoras
  52. 52An Eccentric Orderly
  53. 53A Provincial Oracle
  54. 54Doctor Phœbus
  55. 55Our School and Schoolmistress
  56. 56Local Jealousies
  57. 57Sunshine
  58. 58When It Rains
  59. 59The Patent Adaptable Sonnet. From “Il Signor Lorenzo”
  60. 60Love by Proxy
  61. 61A Wet Night in the Country
  62. 62A Lost Explorer. From the Comedy “Corvi” (Carrion Crows)
  63. 63The Spirit of Contradiction
  64. 64Truth
  65. 65Pasquin
  66. 66Epigrams
  67. 67Proverbs, Folk-Lore, and Traditional Anecdotes
  68. 68The Old Lady and the Devil
  69. 69The Suitor and the Picture
  70. 70Newspaper Humour
  71. 71Biographical Index of Writers

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