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Carnival is the happiest festival of the yearIt seems a party created especially for children, who have always loved dressing up anddressing
up in all ways possible!
Carnival is the period before Lent and is celebrated with masked balls, parades of floats,dances.It ends the day of Mardi Gras, which precedes Ash Wednesday, first day of Lent.
The celebrations during the Carnival season has an origin very far, probably in pagan religious festivals, which made use of masks to ward off evil spirits.
With Christianity these rites lost their magical and ritual were just forms of popular entertainment.During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, during the Carnival celebrations were also
introduced in the European courts and assumed most refined forms, related to theater, dance and music.
Today, Carnival is an opportunity for fun and is expressed through the disguise, maskedparades, festivals.
Pulcinella
NaplesPulcinella is
a foolish servant and talkative. Assumes contradictory personality: it can be dumbor smart, brave
or cowardly.Pulcinella is the
personification of idleness.
He is always hungry and thirsty, his favorite dish is macaroni with tomato
sauce. It has a livelygestures, typical of
the Neapolitan
Rugantino
RomeRugantino contaballe is boastful
and often risks, and pay in person.
It 's willing to take up to remain unconscious in order to
have the last word. Represented thetype
of populating violent but generous, true ancestor of
the modern suburban bully always ready to mock the powers that be and those who defend the misery ends with the outlaw.
Its name derives from "Rugare" ie, grumble, grumble, l
ike a pot of simmering water.
harlequin
BergamoBorn in Bergamo low,
Harlequin shows little intellect and it is foolish and gullible.Harlequin we find
him still as the humble servant
and the porter.It 'a
mask acrobatics, the complex gestures: his speech Bergamo is
much more complex than that
of Brighella, as enriched by expressions in
other dialects.
Pantalone
VenicePant is an old merchant, often
rich and esteemed by the nobility, while other times it
is an old merchant in ruins. It 's an old man very
special because despite his age is capable of doinghis "advances" that love never
end in a positive way.And 'a man of great vitality in
business, to the point of sacrificing the
happiness of children andfamily harmony while advantageous to
combine a wedding
Le Chiacchiere Le Frittelle di Carnevale
Gli Struffoli
Near Somma Vesuviana there is a country: Saviano. It is famous for Carnival.
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