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The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy

Note 1210 — Chapter IV · MIXTURE OF ANCIENT AND MODERN SUPERSTITION.

S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation

‘Molte fiate i morti guastano le creature.’ Bandello, ii. nov. 1. We read (Galateo, p. 177) that the ‘animæ’ of wicked men rise from the grave, appear to their friends and acquaintances, ‘animalibus vexi, pueros sugere ac necare, deinde in sepulcra reverti.’

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