Identifier: palioponteaccoun00heywrich (find matches)
Title: Palio and ponte; an account of the sports of central Italy from the age of Dante to the XXth century
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Heywood, W. (William), 1857-1919
Subjects: Sports -- Italy Italy -- Social life and customs
Publisher: London, Methuen & co
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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THE BATTAGLIA DE SASSI OF PERUGIA On the 29th day of October, the said Fra Bernardinocaused all the said diabolical things to be brought into thepiazza; and there he caused to be built as it were a castleof wood, between the fountain of the piazza and the BishopsPalace, wherein were put all the aforesaid things ; and there-after, on Sunday, the 30th day of the said month, when thepreaching was over, he caused the same to be set on fire;and so great was the fire that words cannot describe it;and therein were burned things of passing great price ; ^worth, as Fra Bernardino himself declared, when preachingin Siena, two years later, many thousand florins.^ Above all, the Saint sought to induce the Perugians toabandon their murderous game—la battaglia che vi si faceva,eke era cosa tanto stermifiata e grande faccienda. Here, however, all his eloquence was needed. He tellsus that it was abolished with extreme difficulty—con penagrandissima? Yet, in the end, it was abolished, inkerendodoc

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