Francesco Fiumalbi
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1. PHYSICAL-PLACE META'
As we have seen in previous articles, the sources from Fate, place the "magic" by definition, have always suggested specific stimuli for stories and novels in the popular tradition of San Miniato. A testimony of this is represented by Guido Pieragnoli novel "La Bruna Poggighisi. This is a story set in 500, during the siege and capture of San Miniato by the Spaniards under Charles V.
Published in San Miniato, by Bongi Printing in 1886, tells of the amorous and political adventures that revolve around the young Bianca, Bruna Poggighisi, contest between the San Miniato Messer Goro and English Captain Ruiz. History, passion, power games and battles are woven into a compelling mix and full of surprises. All within the backdrop represented by the City of San Miniato.
One of the characters around which the novel is the story of the Witch Barbucci, a sort of fortune teller to which the population is targeted to meet their fate. And what place could accommodate the dwelling of Barbucci?
Here are some songs that speak of Barbucci Witch and the place where he had established.
(...) At that point the campaign was horrible, the slope of the hill coming down to peak, sinking into a large ravine in the middle of a small but dense thicket of acacia trees, which wove their branches long and slender, forming a green cap. (...)
his orridezza addition, the place also had a history or, better, a frightening legend, so that everyone shunned them, and even the hunter azzardavasi for those parts, though he knew that those weeds and those small groups of acacias and many willingly would lay their nests hares and rabbits.
were several years that the frightening tales of ghosts and witches had to give up all those places - it says that if the night were seen around one thousand phantoms that precipice, I felt screams of insane, bizarre and raucous sounds, noises of hell, and time to time were seen wandering in solitude mysterious swarms of small lamps.
The vegetation near the Fairies Source
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Even during the day, they said, those who ventured to go in those close it felt like to be chased by an able to intern in the bush of acacia trees, where a crowd of demons, in the guise of fairies fascinate surrounded him, and when he did appear before, in the midst of light beams, all the beauty and charm of Paradise, or the killing then eating its meat, or a beast or calms him in the trunk of a tree!
And it was common voice in the country that those few who, or bravado, or for some other reason, eransi ventured into the cursed place, were not returned.
These superstitious ideas then, these generations, or degeneration, of a sick imagination were yet invigorated by the stories, novels and poems that were written in those days, which were read by all the people sing though - (...).
It is therefore not surprising that even in San Miniato superstition had reached a level high enough, and there are some who just want to be relying on the fact of this pervasive superstition and threatened in order to strengthen the story - since it is considered almost universally to fable - that the country has been taken by the Spaniards for the scattering from the ramparts of the hill of the goats with small lamps attached to the horns, perloché defenders, believing those ghosts, terrified, fled abandoning the citadel, which was taken immediately.
The place of which we discussed above, and still in his name - Sources of Fate - reminds superstitions and fears, was, in the days when we follow the facts to be told, went out of the ordinary, and all men and women, young and old, we all ventured into the same direction, as if it were intended for a common goal.
And - which heightened the strangeness of the thing - the numbers of the people increased, especially at dusk, remained suspended for about an hour, then resumed, after dark in the opposite direction to the country.
All, however, proceeded silently, without even looking as if they were repentant returning from a religious pilgrimage. (...)
The reader will have already figured out what it is, all those people back to the interrogator Barbucci Witch (...).
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where I was coming this witch, and who he was, no one was ever able to know - yes is that in a very short time, it was managed to captivate the hearts of the population, and this triumph reminder devesi perhaps in large part to having the wily witch began his career in San Miniato by ensuring the people of being successful with his exorcisms to free spirits from the famous gorge.
This thing was enough for all rush - with the fanaticism of his people ignorant and superstitious - to get around the old saying the future, to have acquaintance with the things of that and other one (since San Miniato always been San Miniato, and other facts have always made my throat at all) to recover from an illness, to have water and gravies of any kind to love, to hate, the jealousy, for the life and death. (...)
Barbucci ugliness was a remarkable, almost disgusting, and the first to contend before it felt disgust and fear.
owed its name to a tuft of hair thick and tasteless that covered the entire tip of the pointed chin, and a fluff of a faded black that spread out like a mustache on her upper lip - had two small eyes and round, enlivened by a glow grass snake, which made you shiver when I stared up into the deepest fibers as below the effect of a well-fed electric shock - hair, gray with a gray ash dirty, short and wiry, fell on his forehead and down his back, curled, repulsive as small snakes of Medusa's head - the long ears and rolled, flat nose, large nostrils from tablets and porous, which is almost lost amid the two humps sharp cheekbones, the parchment skin, adhering to the bones, wrinkled, yellow as jaundice, hands long, thin, pointed, the body and released a little 'elbow gave the woman a look of the most disgusting.
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And what made it even more disgusting was the clotted dirt on his clothes torn and his flesh: who had a good nose had found near Barbucci, could see how that body gave off a scent .... That was certainly not with roses and jasmine.
Over all then, the woman had around him for something dark and gloomy, it seemed that the whole enveloping fog, a haze full of terror, its meat was usually at that icy, and if the case had come to touch you, touch I did the same effect of the ice body of a snake grasped his hand.
He had a way to laugh then, that rather than a smile, I looked like a nasty wound it opened, because the thin lips and drooping expands to hatch, and discovered the wide toothless mouth, red blood-red.
Barbucci, women's dark and gloomy as he was, he wanted to make his dwelling in the most horrible of the surroundings. In that part of the campaign we've described, and that San Miniato believed for so long as an accursed place, and it was there that he founded the witch, for so to speak, his palace, where every day combined to crowd the cupboards, which then left the bosom of the shrew of the good cents.
That building consisted of two large caves carved into the rock of the hill, one building to another, precisely at that point now where you can find the sources.
The acacia and the sycamore trees that completely cover dark and mysterious place where no ray of sunlight penetrated and hence no one could see even a strip of sky.
A wooden door, big and worm-eaten, the entrance to the cave more large, which communicated with each other through an opening, which best could be called a narrow opening that door. (...)
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The natural source
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In that room was nothing to frighten people and disgust.
walls, quite naked, dripping wet from all sides, and corners the water falling in drops, with a rattling jingle uniform and gloomy, had formed the broad black veins, which in that Darkness took the guise of funeral cloth.
Opposite the entrance door, worn on a table and worm-eaten burned an oil lamp that sent throughout the cave and a reddish light flickering, which increased terror in that sort of grave, next to lumen died of a skull, all shook up, grinning ominously with the jaws and broken and white, scattered on the coffee table, a number of sticks of various lengths and various colors, bottles and flares of all sizes, filters, jars, an arsenal of short pharmacist.
In a corner of the cave near the door, a blazing brazier with long iron bars within the cross, and supported by these, a large copper kettle was boiling and bubbling within which a strange mixture.
The atmosphere of that environment was absolutely stifling, full of choking fumes and fumes from various cropping and acute breathing heavily, light smoke, but poignant, a kind of fog, which penetrated nostrils and mouth almost to suffocate, gave the place the whole aspect of opening a mine recently burned. (...)
The rock walls were adorned only by hideous bodies reptile on his back and nailed to that environment gave something original and new that came out of the town and gave a note to the natural fear of strange poetry. (...)
The other room was for men look sad and gloomy the other men - also carved into the rock, damp and dark, but bare of furnishings that adorn the other grim : The Furnished only a great bed, two chairs and a small table, an oil lantern, hanging from the ceiling, illuminated by a light suppressed the environment. (...)
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limestone on the outer wall of Francesco
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Barbucci The witch could not live on their own sources to Fate. What place so mysterious and, in a sense, so far, there in the middle of a wooded hillside and cold.
It 's amazing the wealth of detail that gives us the clever storyteller. The minutiae of his words makes us run with today's thought to the images of sources to Fate. The "caves", vegetation, humidity. It seems that the author of the novel you have been recently, so today the picture is similar to the one told.
We are unable to decipher whether the term used "cave" reflects the ancient San Miniato feel or whether it was created for the purpose of the novel. We have seen, in GEOGRAPHY OF FATE, as the structure of the sources has not been excavated, but it was built next to the steep hillside. And what about the rock that constitutes the walls of the cave? Probably the limestone covered most of the internal surfaces, suggesting that its image.
The author speaks of caves in the number of 2. Also in the above article you will remember that in reality environments should be three, one for each arch. In practice, however, the portion left today is buffered, closed and it was not possible to verify the cavity. It may be that it was also at the end of the nineteenth century, when Pieragnoli writes his story. Curious, however, that in the novel's two other rooms, probably the middle and the right to be communicating through a small hole. Even for this particular we can not establish their authenticity. Today the two "rooms" are not related, but it is not inconceivable that they were in the past.
Moisture that oozes from all surfaces and the "black veins," the technical term "leachate" accurately reflect the current situation.
really striking, finally, the description of the hillside. It may have been written in our days. The thicket of acacia trees is really as horrible in the description of the novel as a real Lucus, pagan beliefs in the sacred grove, and that embodies the fascinating mystery of the Fairies and their source.
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