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This per nozze contains a famous folkloric piece, a singing rhyme called "La cena della sposa" (The Bride's Supper). It asks that question "What did the bride eat for dinner?" and lists the menus for the first twelve nights of her honeymoon. On the twelfth night, probably watched in fear and trembling by her new husband, she ate twelve plates of ricotta, eleven flasks of wine, ten kilos of Jordan almonds (to which the rhyme adds, "May God make all her teeth fall out!"), nine ovens full of bread, eight roosters, seven lambs, six capons, five trays of pasta, four ducks, three doves, two turtle doves, a hare, and half a pigeon. The brothers who had this piece printed were good friends of Guido Mazzoni, which is probably how it joined the other Mazzoni per nozze.


A project of The Digital Scriptorium, Special Collections Library, Duke University. December 1996
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/mazzoni/exhibit/