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IT IS HARD TO AVOID re-creations of historic street life when walking in Italian cities today. Every festival brings out the balletic flag waving of bandieri accompanied by drums and trumpets. As the occasion or local ambitions grow, so too do the ranks of those in tights, brocaded capes and dresses, hats, and veils, with horses brought in for good measure. The seventeen contrade, or districts, of Siena compete to occupy the street now more than they ever did, ensuring that it is almost inevitable that a visitor to the city at any time of year will hear the familiar drummed beat, see flags tossed into the air, and see ranks of young and old following behind in a route marking a geography of friendship and enmity, with their own voices fixing or challenging boundaries in a cacophony of songs and insults. The twice annual palio race around Siena's shell-shaped Campo adds horses, crowds, and a considerable amount of testosterone and tourists to the mix. Siena's Palio is perhaps the most famous historical reenactment, although many Sienese would bridle at the prefix-in their eyes, this is the ongoing enactment of a ritual that never had to be revived because it never died, not unlike V

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Author

Nicholas Terpstra

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)