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Metamorphosis Transylvaniae (Paperback)
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Metamorphosis Transylvaniae (Paperback)
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Baron Peter Apor lamented the passing of traditional Transylvanian
practices and the "Metamorphosis," written in 1783, is not a memoir
in the usual sense so much a record of a vanishing way of that the
life author had enjoyed in his youth, and had been told of by his
elders. Apor focuses on the world he knew: upper-class society, the
company of Princes and Counts. He gives detailed accounts of
Transylvanian dress, feasts, rituals, ceremonials, travelling,
weddings, funerals and other social functions that are unrivalled
for gusto, humour and color. Here, for example, are young Lords
whose horses had harnesses set with gems; Counts with forty
castles; hospitality of a truly prodigious nature beginning with
vermouth at breakfast drunk from silver goblets; fine banquets
taken to the sound of pipes and violins, finishing with rousing
dances such as the Mouse Dance.
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