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Venice Carnival between history and folklore

The carnival festivities and misbehavior were born as an expression of the need for a temporary dissolution the obligations and social situations, leaving room for the reversal of the order, the joke and also to debauchery.
There are many places associated with the folklore of the carnival but none can match the elegance, sensuality and magic of Venice Carnival .
today is a pale larva of its own, but still very impressive dying in trade and tourism festival and events, but in the past ... a myth.
Already in the Middle Ages wore masks and costumes completely hiding their identity and all forms of personnel belonging to social class, gender, religion.
This collective jubilation in disguise was the very essence of Carnival.

But completely conceal his identity under a costume inevitably led to some excess. Exploiting the disguise there were malicious c he took advantage. In fact, especially at night, disguised and with the complicity of the dark, it was easier to commit crimes such as muggings, robberies and harassment and can never be recognized. As early as 1339 was applied the ban on night travel on the city form over time and the authorities introduced additional restrictions and prohibitions, as well as heavy penalties against fraudulent use disguises.
It happened, for example, that men dressed as women or men from entering the churches and monasteries to perform acts of lust with the sisters, not to mention that, under the cloak, you could easily hide weapons to threaten. For this reason, in 1458 to ban the entry form to the sacred places .
With the spread of casinos occurred episodes of gamblers who escaped to the creditors through the disguise. In 1703 he was then forbidden to enter disguised in casinos.

also prostitutes at the same time contrasted and tolerated, sometimes even encouraged, could easily be confused with masks and exercise their profession in circumvention of the rules imposed by the Serenissima to prevent infection from venereal disease. It was then prohibited prostitution in mask and the pain was severe for those who transgressed: the call from the territory for four years and the public flogging on the way from S. Marco to Rialto.
After the fall of the Serenissima ( 1797) he reached the final ban masquerades , except during private parties and in the palaces of the Ball Cavalchina of the Teatro la Fenice. The consequence was the decline of the spirit that had animated for centuries this historic carnival today is mainly a tourist event, though still attached to the masks of the Venetian tradition, and not the questionable floats featuring other local carnivals ...

How beautiful is that youth who wants to be escapes, however
be happy, there is no certainty in tomorrow ...
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