Wednesday, May 27, 2026
Primitive Sanitation
Ralph Kirkpatrick (1911-1984), Domenico Scarlatti (1953; rpt. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1968). p. 92 (footnote omitted):
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In a Europe of unpaved streets and primitive sanitation, Madrid was celebrated for more than usual Spanish negligence in such matters. Visitors were eloquent in their commentaries; poems appeared with such titles as La Merdeide; and innumerable stories were current in the eighteenth century of homesick Spaniards revived in spirit by sudden whiffs of unspeakable odors.
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