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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE DDOMO III: A CEREMONY AND A MUSEUM The Scoppio del Carro The Pazzi beneficent Holy Saturday's programme April 6th, 1912 The flying palle The nervous pyrotechnist The influence of noonA little sister of the DuomoDonatello's can- toria Luca della Bobbin's cantoria. TN the last chapter we saw the Pazzi family as very J- black sheep, although there are plenty of students of Florentine history who hold that any attempt to rid Florence of the Medici was laudable. In this chapter we see them in a kindlier situation as benefactors to the city. For it happened that when Pazzo de' Pazzi, a founder of the house, was in the Holy Land during the First Crusade, it was his proud lot to set the Christian banner on the walls of Jerusalem, and, as a reward, Godfrey of Boulogne gave him some flints from the Holy Sepulchre. These he brought to Florence, and they are now preserved at SS. Apostoli, the little church in the Piazza del Limbo, off the Borgo SS. Apostoli, and every year the flints are used to kindle the fire needed for the right preservation of Easter Day. Gradually the ceremony enlarged until it became a spectacle indeed, which the Pazzi family for centuries controlled. After the Pazzi conspiracy they lost it and the Signoria took it over; but, on being pardoned, the Pazzi again resumed. The Carro is a car containing explosives, and the Scoppiois its explosion. This car, after being drawn in procession through the streets by white oxen, is ignited by the sacred fire borne to it by a mechanical dove liberated at the high altar of the Duomo, and with its explosion Easter begins. There is still a Pazzi fund towards the expenses, but a few years ago the city became responsible for the whole proceedings, and the ceremony as it is now given, under civic ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217313995 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021731399X |
| Weight | 0.91 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.63 In |
| List Price | $14.39 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 278 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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