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Mendicant Melody part 4
The exhausted and famished tenor sings to the capon hanging outside an upper window, as he inhales the appetizing aroma of the roast cooking...
Mendicant Melody part 3
What strange subterranean passages of sentiment and tone, from the lively airs of the opera-bouffe to the plaintive entreaties directed toward deserted windows!
“Signori, something...
Mendicant Melody part 2
Evidences of poverty and misery and signs, of a life of hardship were manifested by the instruments themselves; the voice of weariness and anguish...
Mendicant Melody part 1
Edmondo De Amicis (1846— 1908)
De Amicis is best known to the world as the author of the children`s classic, Cuore. De Amicis was a...
He who Married a Dumb Wife
Frangois Rabelais (149-?-1553)
Rabelais was born at Chinon in Touraine during the last years of the Fifteenth Century. He studied medicine at Montpellier and then...
The Priest and the Mulberries part 2
“God!” said he, “if any one now should cry `Gee up!` ” He thought and spoke the words at the same moment, whereat the...
The Priest and the Mulberries part 1
The Priest and the Mulberries
Anonymous: 12th or 13th Century
Practically nothing is known of the author of this pleasant little Fabliau. Compared with the great...
Zheravna Festival
Private tours Bulgaria. Bulgaria is no different from any other country in the world. It has its own history, heroes, legends. It surely had...
Rhodope Mountains – Legends and Reality
Today’s train of tour Bulgaria is leaving the capital of Bulgaria, Sofia (private tour Sofia), to travel to the Rhodope Mountains. It stops at...
The Jewish Mother
Biblical Literature
It is not surprising that the stories scattered so profusely through the Bible, the Apocrypha, and the Talmud, should be mostly moral tales....
