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This Morano is a very ancient city; Tufarelli, writing in 1598, proves that it was then exactly 3349 years old. Oddly enough, therefore, its foundation almost coincides with that of Rossano. . . . There may be mules at Morano; indeed, there are. But they are illusive beasts: phantom-mules.
Among its elder literary glories is that Leonardo Tufarelli, who thus apostrophizes his birthplace: "And to proceed how many letterati and virtuosi have issued from you in divers times?
But I dreaded the coming heats of midday. Leone da Morano, who died in 1645, belonged to this congregation, and was reputed an erudite ecclesiastic. The life of one of its greatest luminaries, Fra Bernardo da Rogliano, was described by Tufarelli in a volume which I have never been able to catch sight of.
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