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Identifier: italiancastlesco00batcrich (find matches)
Title: Italian castles and country seats
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Batcheller, Tryphosa Bates, 1878-
Subjects: Castles -- Italy Historic buildings -- Italy Italy -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, Longmans, Green, and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ayin the midst of so much suffering; but nothing that was in herpower to do was omitted, and once back in Rome the rooms ofthe great Royal Palace of the Quirinal were turned into workshops,and all her Ladies-of-the-Palace were called upon to aid in themaking of garments for the needy and suffering in Calabria andSicily. A strange sight, indeed, these magnificent ballroomsfitted out with sewing machines, and the princesses and noble-women of Italy all turning bravely to the task and becoming asproficient seamstresses as they were Ladies-in-Waiting to HerMajesty. Only the winter before there had been given in Romea course of First-aid-to-the-wounded, which had been attended bynearly all the fashionable young women of Roman society. Itwould seem that this had been* Providential, for now many ofthese women at once left for the hospitals of Naples and Sicily,and proved efficient and helpful nurses to their suffering compa-triots. Troops were also sent from Catania, Palermo, and fromI 508 )
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