Palermo, district Mountain of Pity; statue of Saint Rosalia decorated for her party.
From the Gattopardo : The truth, Excellence, is that Don Calogero is very rich, and very influential also; what stingy is but that when needs he knows to spend; and since every ' tarì' spent in the world ends in pocket to somebody it has happened that a lot of people now depend on him; and then when it is friend, it is friend, is necessary to say it; her earth gives her to four terraggis and the farmers they owe to crack for paying him, but one month ago he has lent fifty onzes to Pasquale Tripi that he had helped him in the period of the unloading; and without affairs, the that it is the biggest miracle that is seen from when Saint Rosalia let stop the plague to Palermo.