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Night scene from the carnival at Rome

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Abstract:: At the carnival in Rome in 1849, attendees wore liberty caps and were cheered as they passed the Republican Café while any attendants in livery were hissed and hooted. This scene depicts one of the closing revels showing the crowd carrying lighted tapers and trying to put out each other's taper with a handkerchief or towel. After this goes on for about an hour, a gun is fired, the lights are put out and people eiher go home or to the ball; this lasts till eleven o'clock when the carnival is over and the fasting begins.

"Night scene from the carnival at Rome" (1849). Garibaldi and the Risorgimento. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:214615/

Garibaldi and the Risorgimento

The Garibaldi / Risorgimento digital archive seeks to provide a comprehensive resource for the interdisciplinary study and teaching of the life and deeds of one of the protagonists of the Italian unification process (1807-1882), against the historical backdrop of 19th-century …
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