Lisa Fagin Davis
@lisafdavis.bsky.social
Medievalist, Paleographer, Codicologist, Voynichologist; Executive Director, @medievalacademy.bsky.social; Brown Univ. and Yale Univ. alum; PhD; Red Sox fan
A ten-year-old girl in a harness flies three stories above the massive crowds, declaiming in Italian about the glories of the Madonna del Soccorso, whose shrine was carried in procession earlier in the evening. It's an absolutely delightful spectacle that originated in 16th-c. Sicily, in Sciacca.
August 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
A ten-year-old girl in a harness flies three stories above the massive crowds, declaiming in Italian about the glories of the Madonna del Soccorso, whose shrine was carried in procession earlier in the evening. It's an absolutely delightful spectacle that originated in 16th-c. Sicily, in Sciacca.