Mock-heroic epic · 1622

The Rape of the Bucket

La Secchia Rapita, an heroi-comical poem in twelve cantos

by Alessandro Tassoni

Translated by James Atkinson (1825)

Tassoni's mock-heroic epic of the war between Modena and Bologna over a stolen wooden bucket, the first of its kind in Italian, in James Atkinson's English ottava rima.

Contents · 12 parts

• Canto Iabout 500 lines
• Canto IIabout 530 lines
• Canto IIIabout 630 lines
• Canto IVabout 540 lines
• Canto Vabout 530 lines
• Canto VIabout 590 lines
• Canto VIIabout 580 lines
• Canto VIIIabout 600 lines
• Canto IXabout 660 lines
• Canto Xabout 590 lines
• Canto XIabout 500 lines
• Canto XIIabout 630 lines

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