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The narration is dotted by references to situations and persons contemporary to the author, and with farcical appearances such as the "Conte di
Culagna" (Count of Ass-land) probably the best known character of the book. In the third chapter of the poem, armies from all over the country arrive to take
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which had been fought almost a hundred years before. The central episode, in which the
Modenese steal a bucket from their rivals, is not reported by the main contemporary historians, however a bucket, purported to be that very trophy, has been on display, in the basement of the
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in 1622. It was not to be published in Italy until
Tassoni modified it slightly to accommodate the censorship of the Catholic Church. Tassoni paid for the first Italian edition, bearing his own name, in 1624 (the poem had been previously circulated under the pseudonym of
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was immensely popular both in Italy and abroad. While Marino's influence was fading, Tassoni's comic poem opened the way for the works of his epigones:
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He died in Modena. His fellow citizens remembered his life and work with a statue that can still be seen in front of the town symbol, the
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