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" I observed a custom in all those Italian cities and towns through the which I passed, that is not used in any other country that I saw in my travels; neither do I think that any other nation of Christendom doth use it, but only Italy. The Italian, and... "
The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their ... - Page 150
1803
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Italians

Luigi Barzini - 1996 - 388 pages
...countrymen one of the things that had dazzled foreigners for more than a century: 'I observed a custom . . . that is not used in any other country that I saw in my travels. The Italians and also most strangers that are commorant in Italy do always at their meals use a little...
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The Art of the Table: A Complete Guide to Table Setting, Table Manners, and ...

Suzanne Von Drachenfels - 2000 - 598 pages
...young traveler Furciferiut, "Pitchfork." I observed a custome in all those Italian Cities and Townes through which I passed that is not used in any other country that I saw in my travels, neither doe I think that any other nation of Christendome doth use it, but only Italy. The Italian, and also...
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Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture, and the Family

Patricia Fortini Brown - 2004 - 344 pages
...of forks was: "a custome in all those Italian Townes and cities through . . . which I passed that \\ not used in any other country that I saw in my travels . . , [Italians] doe alwaies at their meales use a little forke when thev cut their meat. . . The reason...
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Life in Shakespeare's England: A Book of Elizabethan Prose

John Dover Wilson - 1913 - 334 pages
...discourse of the first Italian town. I observed a custom in all those Italian cities and towns through the which I passed, that is not used in any other country...travels, neither do I think that any other nation of Christendom doth use it, but only Italy. The Italians, and also most strangers that are commorant...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 50

1856 - 846 pages
...purifying of taste. FORKS. — I observed a custom in all those Italian cities and towns through the which I passed, that is not used in any other country...travels, neither do I think that any other nation of Christendom doth use it, but only Italy. The Italian, and also most strangers that are commorant...
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