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Un giro sulla giostra, e i due coniugi rivivono la loro giovinezza, letteralmente!
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"_Giostre colle nave cioe li giostra li stieno sopra le na_"
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 2 1452-1519 Leonardo da Vinci 1485
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"_Giostre colle nave cioe li giostra li stieno sopra le na_"
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete 1452-1519 Leonardo da Vinci 1485
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It didn't hurt that my perennial favourite ALAN STIVELL guests on a couple of tracks, the better being "La giostra", where the verdant fields of Brittany and Wales are evoked even before the pipes burst in.
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During Giuliano’s giostra, the festival of jousting that celebrated his coming of age, Simonetta was chosen to represent the Queen of Beauty, just as Colombina had once been chosen for Lorenzo.
The Poet Prince KATHLEEN MCGOWAN 2010
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In the Stanze per la giostra (1478; Stanzas for the
PLATONISM IN THE RENAISSANCE JOHN CHARLES NELSON 1968
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"Oh! after that, there was a shower of armour and jewels, and trappings, such as you saw at the last Florentine _giostra_, only a great deal more of them.
Romola George Eliot 1849
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