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Calendimaggio Three days beginning the first Thursday after May 1 According to legend, St. Francis of Assisi used to walk through the streets of Assisi at night, singing. During one of these nocturnal outings, he had a vision of the Madonna Poverta, or Lady Poverty, after which he renounced his inheritance and even his clothes and began a new life tending those who suffered from leprosy. In Assisi, Italy, in early May each year, long processions of messeri (gentlemen) and madonne (ladies), escorted by knights and esquires, compete with each other in singing and music at the Piazza del Comune. In addition to commemorating the town's patron saint, these singing contests serve as an official welcome to May, which is known as the month of love. CONTACTS: Umbria Touristic Promotion Board Via Mazzini, 21 Perugia, Umbria 06100 Italy 39-75-5759-51; fax: 39-75-5736-828 SOURCES: FestEur-1961, p. 115 OxDictSaints-1987, p. 167 Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | May is a good time to visit as the festival Calendimaggio is held during this month, celebrating the return of spring. What emerges is a long tradition of festive dancing in public by Florentine women with the major moments of the dancing year falling between January and June, and frequently associated with major festivals: Carnival, Calendimaggio, and the feast of the city's patron saint, San Giovanni Battista. 3) And Lasca indeed acknowledges that "[b]efore [Lorenzo's time] men celebrated Carnival by masking themselves and dressing as women, and they also used to go about at Calendimaggio cross-dressed [travestiti] as women and girls, singing canzoni a ballo. |
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