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… The dance is hardly ever performed except out ofย doors and in the open air. The parquet is the pavedย road or the roadside, or the lava-flagged streets ofย Naples ; the canopy is the over-arching sky, andย whether by day or by night, or as one bright, clear,ย unspotted blue, or with a moon almost as bright as aย northern sun, where could so glorious a canopy beย gotten?
ย La Festa della Madonna dell’Arco e la Tarantella
