Cerentola

 La Cerentola

Cerentola is an [|Italian Cinderella] story. The main character is named [|Angiolina]. There is also a father, [|Don Magnifico], and two sisters, [|Tisbe]and [|Clorinda]. They are all very nice to her. One day, the father has to go out and buys the girls gifts. Clorinda gets a dress, Tisbe gets a hat and shawl, and Angiolina gets a Bird Verdelio~. The king invites the girls to three royal balls. The two sisters go to the first ball. Angiolina stays behind, but after they leave she goes to the bird and asks for a dress and the bird gave her one. As you can tell, the bird is magical. At that ball the king dances with her all night. Then she runs home before the ball ends. The king tells his servants to follow her, when she sees them following her, she throws money to the greedy servants to distract them. When she gets home she goes to her bird and asks to not be as beautiful as she is so that her family doesn’t notice her. She becomes dressed in what she had on before the ball. The next ball they go and Angiolina stays behind again, but as soon as they leave, she goes to her bird and asks for another dress. Like the night before, as soon as the king sees her, he dances with her as long as he could. Then, just like last time, she runs home early. As she is riding home she sees the servants and throws out sand, and the servants were blinded. When she gets home, she asks her bird to change her back to the normal clothes, the she is. The last ball comes and she denies that she wants to go, but just as they leave she goes to her bird and asks for another dress. She became dressed in all the colors of the heavens, all the comets and stars, with the sun in her [|brow]. Again when she got to the ball, the king danced with her for as long as he could. Like the nights before, she left early, and as she left the servants were on her tail. She did not have any thing to throw out so she jumped out of the carriage and lost one of her slippers but kept running. She got home, asked her bird for the rags, and told it that she lost the slipper, and the bird was worried and asked her what she was going to do. She did not know and was so sad that she cried. The servants found the slipper, took the numbers of the houses, and went back to the castle. The next day they went to the houses and tried it on all the women. When they came to Cinderella’s house she asked the bird for the dress from the night before. As she came down the stairs, the servants realized that it was the woman they were looking for immediately. The father and sisters were confused, because they didn’t think it could be her, because they didn’t know the bird was magic.   =Culture =

Italy is a country in Southern Europe. It has a population of 58 million, most of which are Roman Catholic. It is also home of the [|Pope]. Italy is a popular country with many tourists year round. If you go to Italy don’t forget a camera, because of all the sights from hundreds of years ago, such as the [|coliseum]. A very popular food eaten world wide is pizza. In Italy they speak a few different languages including German, French, Slovene, Italian. Italy has been a country for so many years, no wonder there are so many stories from it and so much history.

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Italy's [|carnival of Viareggio] has been becoming one of the best [|street parades] in Europe. It all started as a protest against higher taxes in 1873. The wealthy middle-class men of [|Viareggio]made floats covered in flowers to show there refusal to pay taxes. Then masks were added to disguise the protesters. After a few years, it became a fun festival on Viareggio.