rafia Vittoria Giliberti, Via Celso 93. 1909. A copy of this
reprint is in the library of the British Museum.

Many of the friends who have helped me to write this book are named in
the following pages, many more are unnamed. I hereby tender my thanks to
all of them.

I specially thank Signor Cesare Coppo, of Casale-Monferrato, who,
although he is not a Sicilian, has helped me in a manner which I will
only hint at by saying that he could give a better account than I can of
Peppino Pampalone, of Castellinaria.

To an English friend, Mr. Joseph Benwell Clark, I am indebted for the
drawing on the title-page and on the cover. When any of the audience
leaves Signor Greco's marionette theatre in Palermo to smoke a cigarette
or to drink a glass of water between the acts he receives a ticket with a
picture of two fighting paladins, which he gives up on returning. I
brought away one of these tickets as a ricordo of the marionettes. The
picture is not very clear, because it is printed from a wood-block that
has been a good deal worn. Mr. Clark has made from it a drawing which
looks more like what the artist originally intended, and I trust that
Signor Greco will not be angry with us for assuming his permission to
reproduce the picture.

In correcting the proof-sheets I have had the assistance of my sister,
Miss Lilian Isabel Jones, and of my friend Mr. R. A. Streatfeild. I am
much obliged to them both for the care which they have exercised.

I must not conclude without saying that Castellinaria still remains as in
Chapter II of my previous book, "not so marked on any map of Sicily."

_September_, 1911

CONTENTS
CASTELLINARIA
CHAPTER PAGE
I. CHANGES IN THE TOWN 17
II. FESTA RIMANDATA 36
PALERMO
III. MARIONETTISTS AT HOME 53
IV. MALAGIGI 66
V. ARGANTINO 73
VI. THE ESCAPE FROM PARIS 82
CATANIA
VII. THE BUFFO'S HOLIDAY 93
TRAPANI
VIII. THE NASCITA