This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...Ferrara and Modena, as at Florence, the Calendimaggio--May-day--was ushered in with pretty processions of winsome girls escorting through the streets with songs and dances the maiden who for her beauty was chosen "Regina" or "Contessa" di Maggio. Griffoni records for us how in 1268 one of these little ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...Ferrara and Modena, as at Florence, the Calendimaggio--May-day--was ushered in with pretty processions of winsome girls escorting through the streets with songs and dances the maiden who for her beauty was chosen "Regina" or "Contessa" di Maggio. Griffoni records for us how in 1268 one of these little maidens--" Quaedam Contissa de illis quae fiunt die primo maji"--was robbed of the fair purse at her girdle by some rude boys under a portico in Via Saragossa, and how her father in revenge "made for" the boys and wounded one of them. It was in honour of such a MayQueen that the Bolognese children of later days used to 1 M. Griffoni, sub ann. 1300. sing: --Fate onor alta Contessa Voi ch' andate per la via Chp accio ch' ella vista sia Qua su in alto 1' abbiam messa Fate onor alia Contessa I1 To the thirteenth century is traditionally ascribed the origin of the famous Bolognese festival of the Porchetta, which was celebrated in the great piazza every St. Bartholomew's Day with ever fresh ingenuity of fantastic pageant, and lasted as an institution down to modern times.2 The strenuous sports of chivalry, the tournaments and jousts so popular in Northern Europe were largely an alien importation into Italy; to these Dante has singularly few references in the Divina Commedia? They were, however, by no means rare in the Italian courts of Dante's day. His silence on this subject is presumably due to a profound dislike of the extravagant expense and frivolous display of the great houses, whose "largess," he declares, made up of the spoils of the weak, of the widow and orphan, is as though one should snatch away the covering of the altar to clothe the robber and his table--with the ecclesiastical...
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