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(1929) [MARC] Author: Axel Munthe - Tema: Medicine
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head and drooping ears, deep in thought. I
had no time to think, my head was full of
rapturous wonder, my heart full of the joy of life,
the world was beautiful and I was eighteen.
We wound our way through bushes of ginestra
and myrtle in full bloom, and here and there
among the sweet-scented grass many small
flowers I had never seen before in the land of
Linnaeus, lifted their graceful heads to look at
us as we passed.

“What is the name of this flower?” said I
to Gioia. She took the flower from my hand,
looked at it lovingly and said: “Fiore!”

“And what is the name of this one?” She
looked at it with the same tender attention and
said “fiore!”

“And how do you call this one?”

“Fiore! Bello! Bello!”

She picked a bunch of fragrant myrtle, but
would not give it to me. She said the flowers
were for S. Costanzo, the patron saint of Capri
who was all of solid silver and had done so many
miracles, S. Costanzo, bello! bello!

A long file of girls with tufa stones on their
heads slowly advanced towards us in a stately
procession like the caryatides from the
Erechtheum. One of the girls gave me a friendly
smile and put an orange into my hand. She was
a sister of Gioia’s and even more beautiful,
thought I. Yes, they were eight sisters and
brothers at home, and two were in Paradiso.
Their father was away coral-fishing in “Barbaria,”
look at the beautiful string of corals he had just
sent her, “che bella collana! Bella! Bella!”

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