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(1929) [MARC] Author: Axel Munthe - Tema: Medicine
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succession and ever increasing tempo until eleven
o’clock when two thousand lire worth of rockets,
Roman candles, catherine wheels and crackers
exploded in the air to the glory of Sant’Antonio.
At midnight the official programme for the
festivity was exhausted but not so the Anacapresi
and the band. Nobody went to bed, the village
resounded with singing, laughter and music the
whole night long. Evviva la gioia! Evviva il
Santo! Evviva la musica!

The band was to depart by the six o’clock
morning boat. On their way to the Marina
they halted at daybreak under the windows of
San Michele for their customary “Serenata
d’Addio” in my honour. I can still see Henry
James looking down from his bedroom window,
shaking with laughter, in his pyjamas. The
band had been sadly reduced in numbers and
efficiency during the night. The bandmaster
had become delirious, two of the leading oboists
had spit blood, the bassoon had had a rupture,
the big drummer had dislocated his right
shoulder-blade, the cymbalist had split his ear-drums.
Two more members of the band incapacitated
by emotion had had to be taken down to the
Marina on donkeys. The survivors lay on their
backs in the middle of the road blowing with
their last breath their plaintive Serenata d’Addio
to San Michele. Revived by a cup of black
coffee they staggered speechless to their feet and
with a friendly waving of their hands they reeled
down the Phoenician steps to the Marina. The
Festa di Sant’Antonio was over.


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