. Men and manners of old Florence . Piazza Santa Maria Novella,and fireworks which generally dropped down in aluminous shower of rockets from the tower of thePalazzo Vecchio. There were masquerades, therewere festini under the arches of the Uffizi, andthere were balls. The Scoppio del Carro^ that is,the flight of the dove on Easter Even, the fair atthe SS. Annunziata on the 8 th of September withilluminations and paper lanterns {rijicolone) broughtinto the city crowds of peasants and inhabitants of theneighbouring towns, good quiet people (^terrazzani) whoduring these solemnities consumed with
. Men and manners of old Florence . Piazza Santa Maria Novella,and fireworks which generally dropped down in aluminous shower of rockets from the tower of thePalazzo Vecchio. There were masquerades, therewere festini under the arches of the Uffizi, andthere were balls. The Scoppio del Carro^ that is,the flight of the dove on Easter Even, the fair atthe SS. Annunziata on the 8 th of September withilluminations and paper lanterns {rijicolone) broughtinto the city crowds of peasants and inhabitants of theneighbouring towns, good quiet people (^terrazzani) whoduring these solemnities consumed with parsimoniousgourmanderie one of those ices which were sold at theBottegone, cool and delicious, rising pyramidally froma slender and shallow little glass. The processionsand the solemn services in the churches, re-establishedin 1815 when the great functions at the Feasts ofCorpus Domini and St. John the Baptist were renewed,filled the souls of all the people with delight, and allsuch as could not attend them, with regret. Giacomo. THE TWILIGHT OF THE PAST 271 Leopardi, tormented by one of his thousand maladies,wrote in 1829: To-morrow will be for me a daylike the rest. The others will have chariot-races,horse-races, the best in Italy, fireworks which costuntold thousands. .. I shall see nothing, and Idont like it at all, and indeed, there was cause forlamentation. At Corpus Domini there was the greatprocession, prepared, expected, looked forward towith longing. On the previous days, long whiteawnings were erected along the streets where theprocession was to pass, and the city already beganto assume a festive aspect. Those who lived abovethe first floors had to make up their minds to seenothing, but those more favoured by fortune hungcarpets and tapestries out of their windows and theirbalconies, and prepared bombole^ scartocci^ and padellefor the illumination, that is, lamps of paper and ofglass, and flat little pans full of tallow, with floatingwicks. All this aroused the rap
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