On the road they wonder, will the booth be too full for them to find places, will they get hot by walking fast up hill, will their clothes be decent? They meet the Festajuolo at the booth-door, distracted because:
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manca una voce Et è ito un veloce a Firenze per lui. |
Voce was the technical name for the actor.
[401] See D'Ancona, op. cit. pp. 245-267. Compare the section on "Geselligkeit und die Feste" in Burckhardt's Cultur der Renaissance in Italien.
[402] Graziani, Arch. Stor. xvi. 344.
[403] Allegretti, Muratori, xxxiii. 767.
[404] Corio, quoted by me, [Age of the Despots], [p. 390].
[405] See D'Ancona, op. cit. p. 245, and compare the account of a similar show in Galvano Flamma's Chronicle of Milan.
[406] Pii Secundi Commentarii (Romæ, 1584), viii. 365.
[407] Niccolò della Tuccia, Cron. di Viterbo (Firenze, Vieusseux, 1872) p. 84.