giuseppini

Updated: June 25, 2025

A couple of fevers and a north-easterly storm had thoroughly spoiled our looks. The interest of Mysseri with the house of Giuseppini was too powerful to be denied, and at once, though not without fear and trembling, we were admitted as guests. Even if we don’t take a part in the chant about “mosques and minarets,” we can still yield praises to Stamboul.

Alexander William Kinglake - Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East