The Land of Cockayne: A Novel

Serao, Matilde · 1927

The afternoon sun crept into the Piazzetta dei Banchi Nuovi, broadening from Cardone's, the engraver, to Cappa's, the chemist, lengthening on from there up the whole Santa Chiara Road, spreading a light of unusual gaiety over the street, which always wears, even in its most frequented hours, a frigid, claustral aspect. But the great morning traffic, of people coming from the northern districts of the town--Avvocata, Stella, San Carlo all' Arena, San Lorenzo--to go down to the lower quarters of Porto, Pendino and Mercato, or _vice versâ_, had been slowly slackening since mid-day; the coming and going of carts, carriages and pedlars had ceased; everybody seemed to be taking short cuts by the C…

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