Cultural Mixture and Historical Meditation
Cultural Mixture and Historical Meditation

Summary/Abstract: “This population is the most mixed with diverse nations of any in the kingdom,” a sixteenth-century inhabitant of Lyon said to account for disorders there: “Italians, Florentines, Genoese, Lucchese, Swiss, Germans, Spanish and other nations. This is a city of as many parts as the spots of a leopard’s skin. A strange populace!” In his memoir The Tongue Set Free: Remembrance of a European childhood, the writer Elias Canetti recalled fondly the mix in his Danube town of Ruschuk in the early twentieth century.

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