The contadino had become a freethinker since the accession of the house of Savoy.
"The Parisians, Book 11."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
It is a relief to mark at no great distance on the hillside a contadino guiding his oxen, and from a lonely farm yon column of ascending smoke.
"Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Vol III."
John Symonds
Far and wide, the country round us gleamed with bonfires; for it was the eve of the Ascension, when every contadino lights a beacon of chestnut logs and straw and piled-up leaves.
"Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Vol III."
John Symonds