The Medieval Italian Mattinata

books-at once badly organized and too systematic, those by G. C. Pola Falletti (1939, 1953)-attempted some decades ago to shed light on the place occupied in the Piedmont ciabre celebrations by traditional youth associations. Should the capramaritum of medieval Piedmont, which closely resembles the French charivari, be considered so much the model, indeed the origin of other Italian forms of the rite? This study will attempt to define ihe character of the charivari for a rather large