The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna

Part I Childhood

Part I

Childhood

I ligna cumu su fhanu e vrasce,

e l’agianti cumu su fhanu e cose.

A fire is as good as the wood being burned;

work is as good as the people who do it.

—CALAbrESE PROVERB

Quandu u gattu un c’è i surici abbalanu.

When the cat’s not around the mice dance.

—CALAbrESE PROVERB