Crossword-Solution: ROSSANO 7 letters, 13 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Thus arrayed in snowy hue, like the lilies of the field, he perambulates during the hot season the wildest parts of South Italy, strangely unprejudiced, heedless of bugs and brigands--a real danger in 1828: did he not find the large place Rossano actually blocked by them?--sleeping in stables and execrable inns, viewing sites of antiquity and natural beauty, interrogating everybody about everything and, in general, "satisfying his curiosity." That curiosity took a great deal to satisfy.

Really, with such extreme ideals before his eyes, the burghers of Rossano must sometimes wonder where righteousness lies.

Rossano was built by the Romans, says Procopius, and during Byzantine days became a fortress of primary importance.

But stay! I have something of more modern date, in which you will find these ancient authors conveniently classified.” From this book by de Rosis, printed in 1838, I gleaned two facts, firstly, that the city of Rossano is now 3663 years old—quite a respectable age, as towns go—and lastly, that in the year 1500 it had its own academy of lettered men, who called themselves “I spensierati,” with the motto _Non alunt curas_—an echo, no doubt, of the Neapolitan renaissance under Alfonso the Magnificent.

One wonders how all these delicately nurtured creatures can have survived at Rossano, if their sleeping accommodation—— You might live here some little time before realizing that this place, which seems to slope gently downhill against a pleasing background of wooded mountains, is capable of being strongly fortified.