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(1929) [MARC] Author: Axel Munthe - Tema: Medicine
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noble head of Augustus, ‘Divus Augustus Pater.’
Mastro Vincenzo said it was not worth a baiocco,
I have it still. He had made the garden all by
himself and had planted all the vines and
fig-trees with his own hands. Hard work, said
Mastro Vincenzo showing me his large, horny
hands, for the whole ground was full of roba di
Timberio, columns, capitals, fragments of statues
and teste di cristiani, and he had to dig up and
carry away all this rubbish before he could plant
his vines. The columns he had split into garden
steps and of course he had been able to utilize
many of the marbles when he was building his
house and the rest he had thrown over the
precipice. A piece of real good luck had been
when quite unexpectedly he had come upon a
large subterranean room just under his house,
with red walls just like that piece there under the
peach tree all painted with lots of stark naked
cristiani, tutti spogliati, ballando come dei pazzi,[1]
with their hands full of flowers and bunches of
grapes. It took him several days to scrape off
all these paintings and cover the wall with
cement, but this was small labour compared to
what it would have meant to blast the rock and
build a new cistern, said Mastro Vincenzo with a
cunning smile. Now he was getting old and
hardly able to look after his vineyard any more,
and his son who lived on the mainland with
twelve children and three cows wanted him to
sell the house and come and live with him.
Again my heart began to beat. Was the chapel
also his? No, it belonged to nobody and people


[1] All naked, dancing like mad people.

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