Rose Hipp
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first heard Aug 2026
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The consequence of this is that few Italian peasants can, since Italy became united, drink the wine they produce or eat the wheat they grow.
Flesh meat once in common use is now as rare with them as it used to be with the peasantry in Ireland.
Milk or butter they hardly ever taste.
Their food, often sadly insufficient, is reduced to pizzi.
A kind of cake made of maize or Indian meal and vegetables or fruit when in season.
Their drink is plain water, and
They are happy when they can mingle with it a little vinaccio, a liquid made after the grapes are pressed, and the wine drawn off by pouring water on the refuse.
Their homes are cheerless and miserable.
Their children left to live in ignorance without schooling, employed in coarse labour and clothed in rags.
The Grand Duke of Tuscany had, by wise and generous regulations, placed hundreds, yea, even thousands of these peasants, happy as independent farmers on their own land.
The crushing load of taxation has caused these to disappear.
and their little holdings have been sold by auction to pay taxes.
And have passed, of course, into the hands of speculators, generally Freemasons, who, when they become landlords,
Vie with the worst of their class in Ireland in greed.
In the states of the church, the
where the careful, most Christian and compassionate spirit and legislation of the vicar of Christ prevailed.
The peasantry ate their own bread, drank their own wine, and were decently, nay even picturesquely clad, as all travellers know.
Before the liberation of the Masonic Piedmontese.
Not a family was without a little hoard of savings for the age of the old
and for the provision and placing in life of the young.
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