Excerpt from Palio and Ponte: An Account of the Sports of Central Italy From the Age of Dante to the Xxth Century Thus, the publication of Professor Langton Douglas' learned volume has enabled me to dispense with a large amount of matter which was only indirectly connected with my subject, and only necessary because no English History of Siemz had, as yet, been written; while, on the other hand, further study and research have taught me that I took too narrow a View of the Palio when I regarded it merely as a Sienese ...
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Excerpt from Palio and Ponte: An Account of the Sports of Central Italy From the Age of Dante to the Xxth Century Thus, the publication of Professor Langton Douglas' learned volume has enabled me to dispense with a large amount of matter which was only indirectly connected with my subject, and only necessary because no English History of Siemz had, as yet, been written; while, on the other hand, further study and research have taught me that I took too narrow a View of the Palio when I regarded it merely as a Sienese institution. A Sienese institution it is; but it is something more. It is the last survivor of those old chivalric games which were played on all the piazze of Tuscany in the Middle Ages; and it can no more be under stood, if viewed alone, than the history of any one Italian Commune can be understood, if divorced from the history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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