The joint chapter between Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri and Lila Yawn focuses on the medieval revival festival
Calendimaggio held in Assisi, and Pasolini's left-wing medievalist Trilogy of Life, and provides insight not only into the nostalgia for, and a selective re-evocation of, the medieval past, but also the importance of medievalism in Italian culture and politics.
Tuve la fortuna, hace unos anos, de formar parte de la comision encargada de designar el vencedor de las fiestas y de las justas <<medievales>> de
Calendimaggio en Asis.
(61) Fu scritta verso il 1675 per essere recitata nella piazza principale della capitale maltese durante la festa popolare dei
Calendimaggio. (62) Le antitesi che sembrano tolte dalle acrobazie verbali dei poeti barocchi italiani dei Seicento, le metafore ben ideate ma sovrabbondanti, l'impostazione rustica e idillica che allontana la figura del Gran Maestro dalle complessita e dalle incertezze della vita politica e ufficiale del tempo, gli ottonari posti dentro le quartine, lo schema della rima: tutte le caratteristiche di questo componimento, il piu noto e degno di attenzione fia tutti i frammenti di cui si sta parlando, lo inseriscono nell'ambiente della poesia sofisticata e stilizzata che si scriveva in Italia, e che fu imitata a Malta in italiano.
May is a good time to visit as the festival
Calendimaggio is held during this month, celebrating the return of spring.
II, viene descritto il "
Calendimaggio ad Assisi" e viene trascritto l'antico inno comunale di Assisi (la lirica e lo spartito); nel cap.
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.
However, others are canzoni di carro that describe parade cars based on literary and classical inventions of a type more often associated with the celebration of visits by distinguished foreigners or such feasts as
Calendimaggio. Such trionfi were devised as quasi-theatrical displays centered around parade cars accompanied by musicians, singers and dancers who did not literally wear masks but were in costume - or a "disguisement" in the older English usage, to which Bishop Hall referred when he wrote of what he called the first English court masque, occurring the night of Epiphany in 1512, just twenty years after the death of Lorenzo de' Medici.
Dempsey finds it at first in the civic rituals of Florence and Tuscany such as the
Calendimaggio. Then in Lorenzo il Magnifico's Commento on certain sonnets addressed to or concerning Lucrezia Donati, his love in the sense of Petrarch's Laura or Dante's Beatrice.