{"id":9380,"date":"2015-06-11T12:06:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T10:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/?p=9380"},"modified":"2015-06-11T12:06:12","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T10:06:12","slug":"a-carpet-of-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/a-carpet-of-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"A Carpet of Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #666699\"><em>By Serena with an English translation by Geoff<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9395\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"http:\/\/&quot;Infiorate Spello particolare&quot; by Leinfioratedispello - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Infiorate_Spello_particolare.jpg#\/media\/File:Infiorate_Spello_particolare.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Infiorata Spello\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9395\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9395\"  alt=\"Infiorata a Spello in Umbria\" width=\"640\" height=\"429\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/06\/Infiorata-Spello.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/06\/Infiorata-Spello.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/06\/Infiorata-Spello-350x235.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9395\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #666699\"><em>Infiorata a Spello in Umbria. Photo CC<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>Domenica scorsa era la <span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/io-voglio-essere-un-vero-angelo\/\" target=\"_blank\">festa del Corpus Domini<\/a><\/span>, e in molti paesi e citt\u00e0 italiane c\u2019\u00e8 la tradizione di celebrare questa solennit\u00e0 con una \u2018infiorata\u2019. \u2018Infiorata\u2019 viene dalla parola \u2018fiore\u2019 e consiste nel creare dei quadri religiosi usando i petali colorati dei fiori raccolti il giorno prima o la domenica mattina all\u2019alba. In molti posti questo tappeto di fiori viene creato sul pavimento all\u2019interno della chiesa, davanti all\u2019altare maggiore, ma in alcune citt\u00e0 l\u2019intera strada davanti al duomo viene decorata con tutta una serie di quadri fioriti a soggetto religioso.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Last Sunday was the festival of Corpus Domini, and in many Italian villages and towns it&#8217;s traditional to celebrate this solemnity with an &#8216;<strong>infiorata<\/strong>&#8216;. &#8216;Infiorata&#8217; comes from the word &#8216;<strong>fiore<\/strong>&#8216; (flower) and consists of creating religious pictures using flowers collected the previous day or Sunday morning at dawn. In many places, this carpet of flowers is created on the floor inside the church, in front of the main altar, but in some towns the entire street in front of the cathedral is decorated with a whole series of flowery pictures on religious themes.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9393\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/06\/tappeto-2.jpg\" aria-label=\"Tappeto 2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9393\" class=\"wp-image-9393\"  alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"671\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/06\/tappeto-2.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/06\/tappeto-2.jpg 592w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/06\/tappeto-2-250x350.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9393\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><span style=\"color: #666699\">Il tappeto di fiori che ha fatto mio babbo nel 1948<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong class=\"size-full wp-image-9392\">Luned\u00ec mattina mio padre stava leggendo sulla rivista Famiglia Cristiana un articolo su alcune di queste pi\u00f9 spettacolari infiorate, come quella famosissima di Spello in Umbria, quando si \u00e8 ricordato che anche lui da giovane aveva \u2018dipinto\u2019 un quadro di fiori per la sua chiesa. Al che mi sono ricordata di avere una foto (purtroppo in bianco e nero e formato francobollo) di questo tappeto di fiori, cos\u00ec sono andata a prenderla e gli ho chiesto di descrivermelo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">On Monday morning my father was reading an article in his Familia Cristiana magazine about some of the more spectacular &#8216;infiorate&#8217;, such as the very famous one at Spello in Umbria, when he remembered that he had also &#8216;painted&#8217; a picture of flowers for his church when he was young. That reminded me that I had a photo (unfortunately in black and white and the size of a postage stamp) of this carpet of flowers, so I went to get it and I asked him to describe it to me.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9392\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/06\/tappeto-3-001.jpg\" aria-label=\"Tappeto 3 001\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9392\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9392\"  alt=\"Il retro della foto: Pasqua '48.\" width=\"480\" height=\"300\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/06\/tappeto-3-001.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/06\/tappeto-3-001.jpg 480w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/06\/tappeto-3-001-350x219.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><span style=\"color: #666699\">Sul retro della foto c&#8217;\u00e8 scritto Pasqua &#8217;48.<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>\u201cQuell\u2019anno c\u2019erano molti fiori nel giardino del prete, sar\u00e0 stato il 1948,\u201d ha cominciato a raccontare mio padre, \u201ccos\u00ec ho chiesto al prete se potevo usarli per fare il tappeto per il Corpus Domini. Ho scelto la classica immagine del calice con l\u2019ostia. Ho fatto il calice in giallo e l\u2019ostia in bianco usando i petali delle margherite. Lo sfondo era rosso, fatto coi papaveri, e poi la cornice intorno era tutta colorata, ma non mi ricordo pi\u00f9 che fiori ho usato\u201d, si \u00e8 scusato pap\u00e0, che adesso ha 94 anni!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">&#8220;That year there were lots of flowers in the priest&#8217;s garden, it must have been 1948,&#8221; my father began to tell me, &#8220;so I asked the priest if I could use them to make the carpet for Corpus Domini. I chose the classic image of the chalice with the holy bread. I did the chalice in yellow and the holy bread in white using daisy petals. The background was red, made with poppies, and then the frame around it was multi coloured, but I don&#8217;t remember which flowers I used any more&#8221;, my father, who is now 94, excused himself!<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>\u201cLa suora cuciniera era cos\u00ec contenta, che mi ha preparato lo zabaglione: \u2018Mangia Nicolino, che ti fa bene\u2019, mi ha detto. Mi chiamava Nicolino perch\u00e9 mi conosceva da quando ero bambino, anche se allora, quando ho fatto il tappeto di fiori, avevo gi\u00e0 fatto la guerra e la prigionia\u201d (N.B.: La campagna d\u2019Africa con l\u2019esercito italiano durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale e 3 anni di prigionia in Tunisia sotto i Francesi!)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">&#8220;The nun who did the cooking was so pleased that she made me some zabaglione: &#8216;Eat Nicolino, it&#8217;s good for you&#8217;, she said to me. She called me Nicolino because she had known me since I was a child, even if at that time, when I made the carpet of flowers, I&#8217;d already been to war and been a prisoner of war&#8221;. (N.B.: The African campaign with the Italian Army during World War 2 and 3 years as a prisoner of the French in Tunisia!)<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #666699\"><em>This Wikipedia page about the <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Infiorata_di_Genzano\" target=\"_blank\">Infiorata di Genzano<\/a><\/span><\/strong> has some great photos showing the creation of a massive carpet of flowers.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"235\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/06\/Infiorata-Spello-350x235.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/06\/Infiorata-Spello-350x235.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/06\/Infiorata-Spello.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>By Serena with an English translation by Geoff Domenica scorsa era la festa del Corpus Domini, e in molti paesi e citt\u00e0 italiane c\u2019\u00e8 la tradizione di celebrare questa solennit\u00e0 con una \u2018infiorata\u2019. \u2018Infiorata\u2019 viene dalla parola \u2018fiore\u2019 e consiste nel creare dei quadri religiosi usando i petali colorati dei fiori raccolti il giorno prima&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/a-carpet-of-flowers\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":9395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[128869,128868,128867,385851,385852],"class_list":["post-9380","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-domini","tag-festa-del-corpus-domini","tag-infiorata-di-genzano","tag-infiorata-di-spello"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9380"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9399,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9380\/revisions\/9399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}