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    612-822-4611

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Unbridled Spirit: The Untold Story of the 2018 Extraordinary Palio in Siena, Italy

Unbridled Spirit: The Untold Story of the 2018 Extraordinary Palio in Siena, Italy

Paradis, Thomas W.

Paperback

AnthropologyItalyRacing

ISBN10: 1733483802
ISBN13: 9781733483803
Publisher: Thomas Paradis
Published: Feb 8 2020
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Once in a great while the people of Siena, Italy organize a special horse race beyond the normal Palio events of July and August. Known as a Straordinario, or Extraordinary Palio, the city's seventeen timeless contrade (neighborhoods) reserve such events to honor only the most significant occasions, not the least being the Apollo 11 lunar landing and the turn of the millennium. Eighteen years would pass before the next Straordinario featured herein, which arguably pulled the community quite outside its comfort zone. Unbridled Spirit invites readers to dive into the locally contentious effort in October, 2018 to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the end of World War I. Upon Siena's whirlwind decision to hold the event, Thomas Paradis visited off-season to explore the history and meanings of the war and to experience a rare October Palio that came close to not happening at all.

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