armeggeria

English translation: celebration, arms exercise or celebratory tournament

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Italian term or phrase:armeggeria
English translation:celebration, arms exercise or celebratory tournament
Entered by: Giovanni Pizzati (X)

19:01 Apr 12, 2008
Italian to English translations [PRO]
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Italian term or phrase: armeggeria
This is a description of Giuliano di Piero de’ Medici.

Nella giostra del 1469 fu fra i dodici cavalieri che accompagnarono Lorenzo nell’”armeggeria”.

My dictionary doesn't have this word. Is is misspelt? TIA
simona dachille
United Kingdom
Local time: 13:32
celebration, arms exercise or celebratory tournament
Explanation:
Festeggiamento, esercizio d'armi o torneo celebrativo.
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Giovanni Pizzati (X)
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4armeggeria
texjax DDS PhD
4 +1competition to prove a man's courage by breaking a spear and planting it in a shield
Mary Carroll Richer LaFlèche
5celebration, arms exercise or celebratory tournament
Giovanni Pizzati (X)
4equestrian exhibition
Sarah Jane Webb
3jousting
moranna (X)


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competition to prove a man's courage by breaking a spear and planting it in a shield


Explanation:
Con la complicità del beltempo, vengono rappresentati dai cavalieri i tornei cortesi equestri, quali la Quintana, il Saraceno e la Mazza d'arme. Gli uomini d'arme appiedati di sfidano a duello con spada e scudo, asce e bastoni ferrati e danno dimostrazione "dell' Armeggeria" ossia spezzare la lancia con forza piantandola su un robusto scudo per affermare il proprio coraggio.

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you might want to leave it in Italian....


    Reference: http://www.armedamecavalieri.it/Rievocazioni.htm
Mary Carroll Richer LaFlèche
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agree  Desiree Bonfiglio
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equestrian exhibition


Explanation:
See
http://www.palazzo-medici.it/mediateca/schede.php?id_scheda=...

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La serie degli spettacoli offerti dalla città ai principi convenuti si chiuse con un’armeggeria allestita la sera dello stesso giorno in via Larga davanti a Palazzo Medici, dalle cui finestre assisté Galeazzo Maria Sforza, l’ospite illustre di Cosimo il Vecchio. Tale festa consisteva in una sfilata e poi in una spettacolare esibizione di un gruppo di armati a cavallo accompagnati da giovinetti a piedi, tutti abbigliati con sfarzo ed eleganza...

the actual equestrian activity, so often completely neglected by the chroniclers ... like the armeggeria staged by the Corsini in 1369 when Piero was made a ...
books.google.it/books?isbn=0801499798...

HTH


    Reference: http://www.google.it/search?q=armeggeria+equestrian+exhibiti...
Sarah Jane Webb
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armeggeria


Explanation:
not a typo at all

La serie degli spettacoli offerti dalla città ai principi convenuti si chiuse con un’armeggeria allestita la sera dello stesso giorno in via Larga davanti a Palazzo Medici, dalle cui finestre assisté Galeazzo Maria Sforza, l’ospite illustre di Cosimo il Vecchio. Tale festa consisteva in una sfilata e poi in una spettacolare esibizione di un gruppo di armati a cavallo accompagnati da giovinetti a piedi, tutti abbigliati con sfarzo ed eleganza. Per la rappresentazione la strada ricoperta di sabbia fu illuminata da fiaccole lumiere e candelabri appesi agli arpioni alle finestre e lungo la via.
http://www.palazzo-medici.it/mediateca/schede.php?id_scheda=...

Tra i vari giochi cavallereschi l’armeggeria fu appunto quello che meglio ottemperava a finalità di carattere propagandistico. Si trattava infatti non di un combattimento vero e proprio, ma di uno spettacolo coreografico nel quale un gruppo di armeggiatori, accompagnati da una folta schiera di donzelli, sfilava per le strade cittadine ostentando sfarzose uniformi, per poi radunarsi in una piazza o in uno slargo a dimostrarel’abilità e l’eleganza dei propri componenti nel cavalcare ritti sulle staffe scorciate e nel "rompere" le lance
http://digilander.libero.it/gasparo/Andrea1.htm

One of these was an armeggeria, held after dark in the Via Larga, ... 45 Besides the armeggeria (described on fols. 72r-76v) there was a joust in Piazza ...

links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0004-3079(197009)52%3A3%3C232%3A... - Similar pages

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0004-3079(197009)52:3<232:S...
JSTOR: The Boy Stripped Bare by His Elders: Art an...
For brigades and armeggeria, see Trexler, Public Life, 225-33, and Power and Dependence, 54-112. 24. For the militancy of youth, see Angelo Poliziano, ...

links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0004-3249(199722


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I suggest to leave it in Italian

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agree  Elene P.
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agree  simon tanner
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agree  Maria Luisa Dell'Orto: E' un evento prettamente italiano, lascerei in italiano (con spiegazione tra parentesi in inlgese)
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agree  Judy Almodovar
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jousting


Explanation:
Jousting is a sport and an entertainment for the rich and noble. It consists of martial competition between two mounted knights using a variety of weapons, usually in sets of three per weapon (such as tilting with a lance, blows with the battle axe, strokes with the dagger, or strokes with a sword), often as part of a tournament.[1]

Jousting was just one of a number of popular martial games in the Middle Ages referred to generically as hastiludes.

Though the first recorded tournament was staged in 1066, jousting did not gain in widespread popularity until the 13th century.[citation needed] It maintained its status as a popular European sport until the early 17th century.[2]

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celebration, arms exercise or celebratory tournament


Explanation:
Festeggiamento, esercizio d'armi o torneo celebrativo.


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