Posted on 09/13/2020 9:54:42 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1459, the former Doge of Genoa Pietro di Campfregoso was stoned to death by his city’s enraged populace.
This Pietro (English Wikipedia entry | Italian) succeeded his cousin to the merchant oligarchy’s head in 1450. Genoa resided in a crab-bucket of rival peninsular and Mediterranean powers, and Pietro was distinctly out-scuttled in the 1450s.
Genoa unsuccessfully supported the Byzantine Empire when it was decisively conquered by the rising Ottomans in 1453, and the Genoans found themselves consequently rousted from a number of Aegean and Black Sea possessions. Meanwhile, fickle Italian fortune brought Neapolitan troops to the walls of Genoa and eventually forced Pietro to submit to a humiliating French protectorate under Charles VII.*
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Not a very fun theme for a thread series is it?
A lesson for the mayor of Portland?
But he would not feel so all alone...
Reminds me of THE COURT JESTER with Danny Kay
Hawkins: (laughs) Roderick: Ah, Ravenhurst, the fellow has wit! (laughs) Ah, I must admit, I was shocked to hear about the Duchess. What did the Duke do?
Hawkins: Pardon?
Roderick: The Duke. What did the Duke do?
Hawkins: Eh... the Duke do?
Roderick: Yes. And what about the Doge?
Hawkins: Oh, the Doge!
Roderick: Eh. Well what did the Doge do?
Hawkins: The Doge do?
Roderick: Yes, the Doge do.
Hawkins: Well, uh, the Doge did what the Doge does. Eh, uh, when the Doge does his duty to the Duke, that is.
Roderick: What? What’s that?
Hawkins: Oh, it’s very simple, sire. When the Doge did his duty and the Duke didn’t, that’s when the Duchess did the dirt(?) to the Duke with the Doge. Roderick: Who did what to what?
Hawkins: Oh, they all did, sire. There they were in the dark; the Duke with his dagger, the Doge with his dart, Duchess with her dirk.
Roderick: Duchess with her dirk?
Hawkins: Yes! The Duchess dove at the Duke just when the Duke dove at the Doge. Now the Duke ducked, the Doge dodged, and the Duchess didn’t. So the Duke got the Duchess, the Duchess got the Doge, and the Doge got the Duke!
Roderick: Curious. I... I... hm? What? What’s that? All I heard was that the Duchess had a siege of rheumatism. She’s 83, you know.
Way surprised many politicians here have yet to be stoned.
I can think of several who could use a good stoning.
There you go
It can be argued that what the Doge did was not as deserving of stoning as what some governors and mayors are doing.
I see what you did there. :^)
OMG, I thought this was about a dog.
ISWYDT......................
The pellet with poison is in the vessel with the pestle..................
“The pellet with poison is in the vessel with the pestle.”
There was a different movie made after THE COURT JESTER in which the same rhythm and rhyme was used, but different words.
I cannot remember the name of that movie.
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