'In which one gets good fat, <br />If one does not get vain' <br />Dante <br /> <br />Bologna,1295. Mazarello da Cuzzano was born. Www.condottieridiventura.it. <br />He had a castle in Cuzzano, near there, and became lord of Monteveglio. <br />He was commander of a group of mercenaries. <br />He got married with Nicolosa Pepoli, granddaughter of the lord of Guelph Bologna, <br />However he was in Ghibelline Modena's pay. <br />The Pope Boniface VIII sent Bologna to a sort of crusade against Modena, <br />Mazarello took part in the battle of Zappolino, in his well known land. <br />The Modeneses won, run after the Bologneses and as trophy they took away the bucket of a well. <br />Joking, the poet Tassoni would write the composition 'The Battle of the Stolen Bucket'. <br />Really two thousand warriors died, nothing changed, <br />The lord of Modena Passerino Bonaccolsi would make a mint. <br />On the contrary Mazarello was arrested by a cardinal, <br />Lost Monteveglio that passed into Taddeo Pepoli's hands, lord of Bologna.<br /><br />Paolo Giuseppe Mazzarello<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/aaj-the-origins-the-battle-of-zappolino/
