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And who and what is Nanni Silvani?
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Nanni--or, more correctly, Signor Giovanni--Silvani is a _buttero_ of the Roman Campagna,
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And, pray, what may a 'buttero' be?
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A buttero, I answered,
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The commercial operations engaged in by these
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are often very extensive, and many of them become very wealthy men. It is hardly necessary to say that neither they nor their families live on, or indeed in most cases near, the land from which they draw their wealth. They are absentees, with a paramount excuse for being so. For the vast plains over which their herds and flocks and droves wander are for the most part scourged by the malaria to such an extent that human life, or at all events human health, is incompatible with a residence on them. The wealthy _mercante di campagna_ lives in Rome therefore, and his wife and family take the lead in the rich, but not in the aristocratic, circles of the society of the capital. One of these men may be seen perhaps at a