Part 78

Longobucco, 195; its “Hotel Vittoria,” 199, 201; situation, 200; intellectual life, 201; silver mines, 202.

Lorenzo, G. de, 39.

Lorenzo (Lawrence), saint, his dragon-legend, n, 102; his fat, 251.

Louis of France, saint, 7.

Love of noise, a local trait, 53.

Love-affairs, how managed, 84-86.

Lucanians, 197, 221.

Lucca oil, 241.

Lucera, its castle, 2, 6; museum, 3; landscape in spring, 6.

Lucifero, a sacrilegious bishop, 319.

Ludwig II, complains of Saracens, 138.

Luke, saint, paints Madonna portraits at Sipontum, 30; at Caulonia, 282; at Cotrone, 306.

Lupi-Crisafi, author, 228.

Lupoli, M. A., 31, 39.

Luther, his creed repressed, 252.

Luynes, duc de, 186.

Luzard (lynx), an absent-minded beast, 94, 222.

Lycanthropy, epidemic of, 176.

Maccheroni, the art of engulphing, 297.

Macchia, village, 178, 180, 188 seq.

Madonna, declines in artistic worth, 24; her realistic diet, 61; della Fita, 93; acbiropita, 108, 113, 114; del Patir, in; her friendship with St. Nilus, 114; del Castello, 122; della Libera, 140; di Constantinopoli, 140; of Pollino, picnic in honour of, 151 seq.; put up to auction, 156; of Messina, 230, 237; absorbs Greek deities, 247; dell’ Arco, 249; del Soccorso, 249; of Pompei, 249; of the Hens, 250; displaces saint-worship, 248-251; her Sacred Hat, 243, 265; her Milk, 250; increases in popularity, 259, 264; del Carmine, 301.

Maecenas, 41.

Maffei, A., 215.

Magic, instances of sympathetic, 57; imported from Egypt, 58, 251.

Magini, G. A., 97, 175.

Magna Mater, 108, 153, 259.

Mahaffy, J. P., 124.

Maida, plain of, 240, 241.