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`Occult' power: the politics of witchcraft and superstition in Renaissance Florence.

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From: Italica
Date: 20030322
Author:Gallucci, Mary M.

D.H. Lawrence introduced his translation of the last novella of Antonfrancesco Grazzini's collection Le cene by stating that it would be "difficult to find a work more typical of the times" (ix). Grazzini, a "typical Florentine" has written "this famous story ... a magnificent account of what is perhaps the best Florentine beffa, or burla (practical joke) on record" (x). Such enthusiasm is accompanied by Lawrence's effusively prejudiced view of Italians themselves--they are noted for their earthy wholesomeness--"the people remains the people, and wine and spaghetti are their ...

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