The Horn and The Fig, Neapolitian Gestures
Part of the pleasure of doing research for a new novel is discovering little gems of social history, such as this terrific work of the mid 19th century, "Gestural Expression of the Ancients in the light of Neapolitan Gesturing" by Andrea de Jorio. De Jorio, a cleric and a Canon of the Cathedral of Naples, was […]
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