{"product_id":"2940015715156","title":"Diversions In Sicily","description":"SELINUNTE\u003cbr\u003e       CHAPTER                                          PAGE\u003cbr\u003e                    I.  THE BRIGADIER AND THE              3\u003cbr\u003e                        LOTTERY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                            CASTELLINARIA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                   II.  PEPPINO                           29\u003cbr\u003e                  III.  THE PROFESSOR                     41\u003cbr\u003e                   IV.  THE WINE-SHIP                     52\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                               CATANIA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                    V.  MICHELLE AND THE                  77\u003cbr\u003e                        PRINCESS OF BIZERTA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                               TRAPANI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                   VI.  FERRAU AND ANGELICA               97\u003cbr\u003e                  VII.  THE DEATH OF                     113\u003cbr\u003e                        BRADAMANTE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                              MOUNT ERYX\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                 VIII.  MONTE SAN GIULIANO               131\u003cbr\u003e                   IX.  THE MADONNA AND THE              149\u003cbr\u003e                        PERSONAGGI\u003cbr\u003e                    X.  THE UNIVERSAL DELUGE             166\u003cbr\u003e                   XI.  THE RETURN                       181\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                              CUSTONACI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                  XII.  FAITH AND                        189\u003cbr\u003e                        SUPERSTITION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                              CALATAFIMI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                 XIII.  THE PRODIGAL SON AND             213\u003cbr\u003e                        THE ARTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                               PALERMO\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                  XIV.  SAMSON                           235\u003cbr\u003e                   XV.  THE CONVERSION OF THE            254\u003cbr\u003e                        EMPEROR CONSTANTINE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                            CASTELLINARIA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                  XVI.  A GREAT ACTOR                    279\u003cbr\u003e                 XVII.  SUPPER WITH THE                  290\u003cbr\u003e                        PLAYERS\u003cbr\u003e                XVIII.  A YOUNG CRITIC                   304\u003cbr\u003e                  XIX.  BRANCACCIA                       317\u003cbr\u003eSELINUNTE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I--THE BRIGADIER AND THE LOTTERY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne wet Saturday evening in May I found myself at Castelvetrano\u003cbr\u003econsulting Angelo, the guide, about the weather.  His opinion was that it\u003cbr\u003ewould clear up during the night; I said that if it did we would go to\u003cbr\u003eSelinunte, and this confirmed his view; so, on the understanding that\u003cbr\u003ethere was to be no rain, I appointed him padrone of the expedition and\u003cbr\u003epromised to acquiesce in all his arrangements.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe was quite right; Sunday morning was brilliantly fine, and at about\u003cbr\u003e8.30 we started.  He began by showing me his purchases; he had been out\u003cbr\u003eearly, marketing, and his basket contained fresh tunny, the first of the\u003cbr\u003eseason, veal, salame, dried fish, bread and oranges, but no wine; he said\u003cbr\u003ewe should find that at the locanda, where they would cook the tunny and\u003cbr\u003ethe veal for us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCicciu, our driver, was one of those queer creatures one sometimes meets\u003cbr\u003ein Italy.  At first I took him to be of feeble intellect, for when I\u003cbr\u003espoke to him or merely looked at him, he shut up his eyes, showed his\u003cbr\u003eteeth and covered his face all over with grinning wrinkles; but on\u003cbr\u003eknowing him better, I found he was really extremely intelligent and\u003cbr\u003eperfectly good.  He was about sixteen, but would have passed for twenty.\u003cbr\u003eHis general appearance was grey, the actual colour of his face, hands and\u003cbr\u003eclothes being powdered out of sight by the dust which held all together\u003cbr\u003elike a transparent glaze over a painting.  He drove us along between\u003cbr\u003eflowery fields of cistus until the temples of Selinunte came in sight,\u003cbr\u003ethen down to the Marinella, a handful of houses on the shore under the\u003cbr\u003elow cliff.  We drew up at the locanda which distinguished itself by\u003cbr\u003edisplaying over the door, in a five-ounce medicine bottle, a sample of a\u003cbr\u003ecloudy, canary-coloured fluid to advertise the wine Angelo had spoken of,\u003cbr\u003eand the forlorn bunch of five or six faded sprigs of camomile which hung\u003cbr\u003eon the same hook constituted the bush.  We left our basket with\u003cbr\u003einstructions and drove off to inspect the acropolis and the ruins,\u003cbr\u003ereturning in about an hour and a half.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe locanda was an immense, cavernous room divided into front and back by\u003cbr\u003ea partition about seven feet high with an opening in the middle.  There\u003cbr\u003ewas no regular window, but we were only a few feet from the sea which\u003cbr\u003ereflected the sunshine through the open door and up into the arched roof\u003cbr\u003eand illuminated the front part.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47146306076912,"sku":"2940015715156","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015715156","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}