Word: trilussa
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...Caffe Friends in Piazza Trilussa, there is a general policy not to sell to anyone under 18. But Leuci points out that bartenders and business owners have no right under Italian law to demand that someone shows proper identification before being served. "Like all things in Italy, it's a gray area," he says. "The [national] government and the cities delegate to the people to go figure it out on their...
...rest of the verse in the number is less ambitious. There are two sonnets, and a scene from nature in quatrains. Under the title "Them Marionettes," R. Altrocchi has cleverly adapted from the Neapolitan of Trilussa the description of a box of puppets after the play is over. The incongruity of the masquerade of dialect words and phra67ses in the most exquisite of literary forms humorously suggests the world of the marionettes, and the perfect equality and fraternity that prevail in the box symbolize the artificiality of social distinctions. This point is obscured, however, by the simile "like slaughtered sheep...