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A play on the name of the Dominicans (Domini Canes) which was accepted by themselves, and which is pictorially represented in a fresco painted for them by Simone Memmi.
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Arte di Calimara, arte being, in this use of it, equivalent to corporation.
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A sum given by the bridegroom to the bride the day after the marriage. Morgengabe.
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The name given to the grotesque black-faced figures, supposed to represent the Magi, carried about or placed in the windows on Twelfth Night: a corruption of Epifania.
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Beauteous is life in blossom!
And it fleetethfleeteth ever;
Whoso would be joyfullet him!
Theres no surety for the morrow.