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A crowd of people are in the streets around a carriage carrying a woman and a large man on the back. Etching.
Wellcome Collection

A crowd of people are in the streets around a carriage carrying a woman and a large man on the back. Etching.

Bartolomeo Pinelli · 1830

CC0 — Public Domain
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La smozza, or the Blowing out the lights (French, "Souffler les lumières"), in the Corso in Rome, before midnight on the evening of Shrove Tuesday, the last day of carnival. Some people carry giant candle-snuffers with which to snuff out all the candles carried in the last days of the carnival

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