A Mender of Images (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Lorimer, Norma

9781331152125: A Mender of Images (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 1331152127 ISBN 13: 9781331152125

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from A Mender of Images

It must be remembered that Girgenti was the only city which Zita had ever seen, added to which she knew its other face. Girgenti, like everything else in Sicily, has two faces. Girgenti was her paese, and to a Sicilian what is not summed up in that sacred word?

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Zita Mazzini and her brother Salvatore lived in a two-roomed house in the main street of Girgenti, the ancient Acragas, the Roman Agrigentum.

A stranger would not endorse Pindar's words that Acragas was "the fairest of mortal cities," and certainly the surroundings of Zita's home were not fair; indeed, there was much that was ugly quite close to her door - and Sicily can be ugly. But Zita herself was fair and to her Pindar's words were indisputable.

It must be remembered that Girgenti was the only city which Zita had ever seen, added to which she knew its other face. Girgenti, like everything else in Sicily, has two faces. Girgenti was her "paese," and to a Sicilian what is not summed up in that sacred word?

Girgenti is set on a hill and lies between the mountains and the "wine-blue" sea of Diodorus Siculus. Its ugly face tells you that it is a mining city, which sulphur has made prosperous. Its beautiful face soars up from medi�val walls which look over the historical plain of splendour-loving Acragas.

Zita loved her home, which meant to her, as it does to all Italians, the locality in which she lived. She was proud of her city, which had perpetuated as a city part of the Greek colony whose founders came from Gela in B. C. 592. She knew it with its volta faccia under every possible condition, when the spring rain brought a harvest of flowers into bloom around the golden temples and asphodels make a delicate carpet for unseen feet to tread.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.