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The War of the Bucket: When Two Italian City-States Fought Over a Pilfered Pail
Every English student knows The Rape of the Lock, Alexander Pope’s mock-heroic satire of the social mores of 18th-century British gentry. What fewer people know is the model Pope used: Alessandro Tassoniās 1622 masterpiece, La secchia rapita. Its subject is quite an unusual historical eventāa 14th-century war fought over a stolen bucket!