Category:Calesse di Resina
English: "Corricolo is synonymous with calessino; but since there is no perfect synonym, we explain the difference between corricolo and calessino. Corricolo is a kind of tilbury, originally intended to contain a single person and to be pulled by a sol horse; instead two horses attach themselves and it carries from 12 to 15 people. And do not believe that it keeps pace: it gallops (...) and runs through the streets of Naples, sparking sparks from a pavement of Vesuvian lava and raising a dust of ash. (...) We have said that this tilbury destined for one person, routinely carries 12 to 15: this requires an explanation. (...) First and foremost, a large monk is seated in the means and forms the center of the human agglomeration (...) On one of the monk's knees sits a fresh nurse from Aversa or Nettuno, and on the other a beautiful peasant woman from Bacoli or Procida. On both sides of the monk, between the wheels and the box, the husbands are standing i of these ladies. Behind the monk, the driver or owner of the corricolo stands on tiptoe, clutching the reins in his left hand and the long whip with which he excites the horse race in his right hand. Behind him group in turn, in the manner of the valets of the patrician houses, two or three lazar who rise, descend, succeed, renew themselves, without ever thinking about asking them for any price in exchange for the service rendered. On the two poles there are two little boys gathered on the way to Torre del Greco or Pozzuoli, supernumerary ciceroni from the antiquities of Herculaneum and Pompeii, chocolate-colored guides from the antiquities of Cuma and Baia. Finally, under the axle of the car, between one and the other wheel, in a network with large meshes that is tossing from top to bottom and from one side to the other, swarms with something shapeless that laughs, that she cries, who screams, who mumbles, who complains, who sings, but that it is impossible to distinguish between the dust raised by the horses: there are three or four brats who belong to it is not known to whom and who go they do not know where, who live not we know of what, who are there we don't know how and what remains there we don't know why. Add the monk, the peasants, the husbands, the driver, the lazzaroni, the brats, the brats, add the forgotten baby boy and you will have, in total, 15 people. Sometimes it happens that the fantastic vehicle, loaded as it is, passes over a stone and overturns. Then all the passengers scattered on both sides of the road, each launched more or less far from its own weight. But each one rises and forgets his accident so as not to concern himself with that of the monk, one touches it, turns it, turns it over, lifts it up, questions it. If he is injured, everyone stops running and the monk is supported, transported, put to bed and cared for. The corricolo is set aside in a corner of a courtyard, the horses placed in an improvised stable; for that day the journey is over; we cry or pray. But if on the contrary the monk is safe and sound, nobody feels bad; he puts himself back in his place, the nurse and the peasant girl take up a position on his knees, each one restores himself, regroups, and at the excitement of the coachman only, the corricolo resumes its run, quick as lightning and tireless as Time. Here is what the corricolo is. "(Alexandre Dumas in" Il Corricolo "). per Google
Media in category "Calesse di Resina"
The following 10 files are in this category, out of 10 total.
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Conrad, Giorgio (1827-1889) - n. 0149 - Galesse di Resina.jpg 370 × 577; 139 KB
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Conrad, Giorgio (1827-1889) - n. 550 - Calesse di Resina.jpg 779 × 379; 348 KB
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Corricolo - Le Tour du monde-04-p197.jpg 1,283 × 855; 327 KB
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Naples - Calash.jpg 390 × 285; 19 KB
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Pifferari. - Corricolo (19360292009).jpg 3,932 × 2,540; 2.43 MB
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Gustav Friedrich Wilhelm Richter Neapolitanische Bauern auf dem Heimweg von der Ernte.jpg 3,864 × 3,156; 4.07 MB
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Sommer, Giorgio (1834-1914) - n. 2771 - Calessa di Resina (Napoli).jpg 511 × 813; 374 KB
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Sommer, Giorgio (1834-1914) - n. 767 - Calesse di Resina.jpg 1,020 × 496; 169 KB