Douglas tramped the Calabrian and Apulian hills on foot, and the book that came out of it is learned, malicious and entirely alive: Saracen Lucera and the cave shrines, the flying monk of Copertino, Venosa and Horace’s country, the tillers of the soil, brigands, earthquakes, and the classical past everywhere underfoot.
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