La secchia rapita
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La secchia rapita (The Rape of the Bucket) is a mock-heroic epic poem by Alessandro Tassoni first published in 1622. It tells of a war between the Italian cities of Modena and Bologna over the possession of a wooden bucket. It later influenced Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock.
La secchia rapita is also the name of a comic opera by Salieri, first performed in Vienna in 1772. One of the arias from the work was recorded by Cecilia Bartoli on her Salieri Album.
[edit] References
- Cambridge History of Italian Literature ed. Brand and Pertile (1996) p.310
- The Salieri Album booklet notes to the recording by Cecilia Bartoli (Decca, 2003)
