Italian Monk, scanned from 19th century book

From A Photographic Trip Around the World by J.A. Bradley, published by John W. Iliff & Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1892. Copyright expired.

Original caption:

MONK, ITALY. - Monasticsm primarily meant the state of dwelling alone; and then, by an easy and natural transition, it came to denote a life of poverty, celibacy and divine obedience under fixed rules of discipline. The radical idea of the term, in all its varieties of age, creed and country, is the same, namely, retirement from society in search of some ideal life, which society cannot supply, but which is thought attainable by self-denial and withdrawal from the world. The picture represents an Italian monk in funeral attire.

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