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July: Siena: first Palio (2 July, see page 105); Palermo: festival of patron Santa Rosalia; Venice: Redentore regatta; Rimini: Festival of the Sea; Rome: Noantri street-festival in Trastevere (see page 65)
Most readers of VERBATIM would, I am sure, have been as intrigued as I was to discover that a yeoman is “an English landowner often having municipal functions”; that in tennis a ball is net “when it touches the top of the summit [ sic ] of the net separating the two sides”; that a starting block has “compartments in which race-horses are put before the off so they can all leave simultaneously”; and that brick is the English for “a sailing-ship with two masts” --taking part, maybe, in a lofing match: “in a sailing-boat regatta, the action of one of the participants consisting in an attempt to bring one of his rivals head to the wind.”
On the first Wednesday in August, St. John’s Regatta, a race for six-oar rowing boats, is held on Quidi Vidi Lake.
Racing started as an informal pastime, but in 1840 Samuel Triscott (a local victualer) organized the first regatta.
September: Naples: Piedigrotta, Neapolitan music and cuisine and the 19 September feastday of San Gennaro; Venice: Historical Regatta