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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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151); while, in Lucca and elsewhere, those who had suffered mutilation at the handsof a barbarous criminal justice were forbidden to shock the delicate sensibilities of thecitizens, by approaching nearer to the walls than two bow-shots distance (Batidi Lucchesi, p- 374). * In the morning, the image of the Saint was borne in state to the Church of S.Domenico, all the magistrates of the Commune following in procession, with wax candlesin their hands, which were subsequently deposited with the qfficiali fatti sopra la fabricae concime di S. Lorenzo (Cronaca del Graziani, 319). Then, too, the subject towns broughtpalii, horses and tribute.—See Pellini, op. cit., i. v. 407 ; Archivio storico Italiano, torn. xvi.parte i. pp. Ixviii, 62, 68, 143, 181 note. ^ See Note I., at the end of the chapter. ® Ne si continuavano tutto Ianno questi giuochi, ma si cominciavano il primo di diMarzo continuando per tutti li due mesi seguenti solamente i giorni delle feste. CompareSiSMONDl, loc. cit. 146
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