![]() If the tale turns upon a vessel which has to make a voyage, she utters, without remarking it, or without seeming to do so, sailors' phrases, and words which only seamen and those who have to do with seamen are acquainted with. This is a characteristic to which I call my readers' attention. She cannot read, but she knows so many things that no one else knows, and repeats them with a propriety of tongue that is a pleasure to hear. As a child, she was told by her grandmother an infinity of tales which she had learned from her mother, and she in turn from her grandfather she had a good memory and never forgot them. ![]() Messia already reckons her seventy years, and is a mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. ![]() Pitrè’s Description of Storyteller Agatuzza Messia (1804 -? ) ‘Anything but beautiful, she has facile speech, efficacious phrases, an attractive manner of telling, whence you divine her extraordinary memory and the sallies of her natural wit. ![]()
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