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NARRATIVE OP A RESIDENCE OF FOUR MONTHS AT NAPLES AND IT3 NEIGHBOURHOOD, FROM JUNE TO OCTOBER, 1827. BY GEORGE KENRICK.
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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY AND REVIEW . NEW SERIES , No . XVI .
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APRIL , 1828 .
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No . II . Naples , October \ btk . After surveying some of the curiosities of Naples and its vicinity , which it does not fall within my present design to describe , I proceeded , July 5 th ,
to Sorrento , where I spent two months . This city is of the remotest antiquity , is the present seat of an Archbishopric , and , including a district of three miles in length and one and a half in breadth , called the Piano ot p lain of Sorrento , comprises a population of 25 , 000 persons , nearly all blindly attached to the Catholic superstitions , and involved in the most barbarous ignorance . In the part of the Piano most remote from the city , there are a considerable number of persons of property engaged in the
wholesale trade in fruit , and the manufacture of gauze and silk goods , who are respectable in their character , and manifest a primitive simplicity in their manners . But the inhabitants of the city of Sorrento resemble their Neapolitan , neighbours . One of my fellow-lodgers was a priest , from whom I learned that there were one hundred ecclesiastics in Sorrento itself , and four hundred in the adjacent plain . The manners of the country and the construction of the houses ar ^ such , that every one knows how every one
employs his time , and in a great degree the disposition and attainments of each individual . From the great heat of the climate , all windows and doors ] are kept open , most of the rooms are passages to other rooms , and it is the Custom to enter into conversation without any introduction . I had opportunities , therefore , of knowing both priests and people . I found amongst the former a general easy good nature , without any assumption or airs of superiority , but the grossest indolence , ignorance , and insensibility to the distresses of others . I never saw either my fellow-lodger or any of his numerous brethren with a book in his hand , nor was he , at least , possessed of a single one , his Breviary excepted . Having no taste for parrots , canaries , ' cats , or fiddles , common pastimes of his brethren , he slept nearly the whole day * . / They are surrounded by a mass of ignorance , which they take no *
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Narrative Op A Residence Of Four Months At Naples And It3 Neighbourhood, From June To October, 1827. By George Kenrick.
NARRATIVE OP A RESIDENCE OF FOUR MONTHS AT NAPLES AND IT 3 NEIGHBOURHOOD , FROM JUNE TO OCTOBER , 1827 . BY GEORGE KENRICK .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1828, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2559/page/1/
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