Palio And Ponte : An Account of the Sports of Central Italy From the Age of Dante to the Xxth Century
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26-27. 92 BOOK II THE GIUOCO DEL MAZZASCUDO CHAPTER THE FIRST THE GIUOCO DEL PONTE OF PISA Qui si rinnovano gli esempj arditi Dei scontri fervidi dei campi El^i ; Tutti gik sognano danze, e conviti, Pugne, e trofei. TO Pisa, great and powerful while yet the Greeks fought beneath the walls of Troy/ whose more than thirty centuries laugh to scorn the pinchbeck antiquity of other cities ; beside whom, even Rome is young ; to Pisa, Lady of the Sea,^ the mart of all the West and all the world,* the ...conqueror of the Balearic Isles, of Sardinia and of Corsica, the scourge of the Infidel, . . . al ferire invitta, al vincer nata; to Pisa, Tuscice Provinci^ caput * for twelve generations ere yet the upstart Florence dared to contest her hoar su- premacy ; to whom the Emperor of the East paid tribute ; ^ whose consuls owned no less or lower fount of their authority ' yEneid, x. 179. ^ Quando Pisa nell' ultimo Oriente Donna del mar, le squadre sue spingja. ' "In questi tempi, la citti di Pisa era in grande a nobile stato di grandi e possenti Cittadini dei piu d'ltalia ...
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