Masks and Disguises
During the carnival, Venetians used to dress up in the oddest of ways. A document with the strange title of "Different ways of dressing up for carnival introduced by both men and women alike during the 18th century" lists the different costumes in use. Here are but a few:
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as a fisherman with his fishing-rod
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as a Turk with a pipe or sceptre
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as Gnaga with a baby or a cat or a dog wrapped in swaddling clothes
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as Buranello
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as Tracagnan
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as Brighella
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as The Doctor
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as Covielo
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as a lawyer with papers
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as Scoacamin
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as Pulcinella (with a ? of macaroni)
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as a lackey
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as a Spaniard
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as a weeping Jew
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as a demon
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as a hunter with a fake gun
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as a trembling, gouty old man
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as a Gallic invalid
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as an Armenian
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as a Satyr
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as a kitchen-gardener with hat and basket
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as a peasant-girl
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as an old peasant widow
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as a baker
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as Piero
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as Mattacino
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as a butcher
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as a king with his sceptre
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as a medical doctor
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as masqueraders on stilts
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as a collier
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as a street-vendor
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as an astrologer
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as a Pyrenese sailor
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as Amazoni
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as Moro
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as street assassins
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as armed soldiers
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as masqueraders wearing suits of copper coins
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as a chained dancing bear
