'If bad seigniory, that always grieves <br />Subject people, did not move <br />Palermo to yell: - Death, death! ' <br />Dante <br /> <br />Palermo,31st March 1282. It is time of the Vespers. <br />In the Verdi's opera, Elena gets married, <br />The bells announce the wedding as well as the riot, <br />Elena wanted to revenge herself the same. <br />Nevertheless those Sicilians were brave compared with their descendants, <br />The unionists that wanted the Angevin instead; <br />New harlequins servants of two masters, they would have rescued the Hoenstaufen, too, <br />Those eunuches served three or four owners, including some local bossies. <br />I thank my schoolfellow Gianni Ansaldi <br />Who presented me with the poems by Trilussa: <br />'- Er popolo che fà? - Se gratta. <br />- What about the people? - They're scratching themselves'. <br />The new joint venture seld the ticket to the people.<br /><br />Paolo Giuseppe Mazzarello<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/aag-the-origins-sicilian-vespers/
