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Updated: May 27, 2025
Sant’ Andrea is still “Il Divo,” the tutelary god of the Amalfitani; he remains in the estimation of these simple ignorant folk the special protector of the community. Times and ideas change, but not the old deep-rooted feeling of a personal tie between the Saint and his favoured people.
A little girl with black ringlets and eager eyes was dexterously lifted on to her father’s shoulder, in order that she might present “Il Divo” with a golden chain, which the tiny fingers deftly clasped round the bejewelled neck of the silver bust. The crowd saw and applauded; it was a moment of triumph for the dark-eyed child, for the Church, and for the approving throng.
Faber seemed to feel the influence of it notwithstanding, for he returned, "If all clergymen were as liberal as you, Mr. Bevis, there would be more danger of some of us giving in." The word liberal seemed to rouse the rector to the fact that his coachman sat on the box, yet another conscience, beside him. Sub divo one must not be too liberal.
'Your music is very good, he said, 'but now I am going into the fields and by the river, where I can hear a music I like better. But the musician with the harp was really Divo Apollone himself; disguised. And this made him very angry and jealous. And to punish King Mida he changed his ears to long hairy ears, like an ass's.
For, after all, the secret charm of all these sports and studies is simply this, that they bring us into more familiar intercourse with Nature. They give us that vitam sub divo in which the Roman exulted, those out-door days, which, say the Arabs, are not to be reckoned in the length of life. Nay, to a true lover of the open air, night beneath its curtain is as beautiful as day.
We are reminded by the inscription above the portico of the temple, "Divo Antonino et Divæ Faustina," that the government of the Cæsars had become an earthly omnipotence in the estimation of the Romans and the subject nations. They looked alone to Cæsar for all their good, and from him they feared their chiefest evil. He had become to them their providence or their fate.
They can do anything they wish. Divo Pan is the divo who makes all the music that you hear out of doors, the music of the wind and the water and the bird-songs. But you must be careful never to praise his music aloud, lest Divo Apollone should hear you. He is the divo that makes all the music you hear on instruments on harps and violins and pianos.
What is Divo Pan?" "Don't you know what a divo is?" asked Annunziata, her clear grey eyes surprised. "Oh, a divo?" said Maria Dolores, getting a glimmer of light. "Ah, yes, a divo is a saint, I think? "Not exactly," Annunziata discriminated, "but something like one. The saints, you see, are always very good, and divi are sometimes bad. But they are powerful, like saints.
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