Grazie mille ❤️

Chapter 5 has sus nuns.

Thank you so much Ziga!

Grazie, Mike! :-)

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4) Whatever the translation, I'm taking this was meant as a warning to remove the poem from wherever it was placed at your own considerable risk. Picture of document in 17th c. script attached.

3) The poem generally insults the manhood of the Venetians, their wives, their government.... That's not the most interesting bit, however. The cartello ends with the line: "Chi lo strazzarà sarà ammazzato." My rough translation of this is: "Whoever tears this up, will be killed"

2) This poem from 1615, which was apparently posted publically all over Verona, is a dialogue and pasquinata (a satrical poem) and says some shall we say insluting and NSFW things about the Venetians (for context, Verona was part of the Republic of Venice and wasn't always happy about it).

The girl in the middle looks she's thinking: "if one of these dudes tries to mansplain the gulag archipelago or Chicago-school economics to me one more time..."

I'm not sure how much I can add beyond what has already been deciphered. It's a fascinating text!

Thank you!