A fair country

An extended market day in Borzonasca, the nearest town.
The farm surroundings have provided many different mushrooms, (which have been eaten,) and an abundant supply of chestnuts, (which we roast at the fair and sell.)
Every hamlet here has a church with a priest that they supported. One extra mouth to feed was always a heavy burden for peasant families although it extended the power of the church into the minutiae of everybody's life.
Borzonasca is a three church town, with alters like wedding cakes, of no particular beauty.Read more