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Article: `Occult' power: the politics of witchcraft and superstition in Renaissance Florence.
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- Italica
- Article date:
- March 22, 2003
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D.H. Lawrence introduced his translation of the last novella of Antonfrancesco Grazzini's collection Le cene by stating that it would be "difficult to find a work more typical of the times" (ix). Grazzini, a "typical Florentine" has written "this famous story ... a magnificent account of what is perhaps the best Florentine beffa, or burla (practical joke) on record" (x). Such enthusiasm is accompanied by Lawrence's effusively prejudiced view of Italians themselves--they are noted for their earthy wholesomeness--"the people remains the people, and wine and spaghetti are their forms of poetry: good forms, too" (xii). Italians, he maintains, have a long history of playing ...
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