Hello friends!!
This is a CD where
you can see what
Italian pupils and
teachers (from
Lucca) did for our
European project.
Year of EU entry: Founding member
Political system: Republic
Capital city: Rome
Total area: 301 263 km²
Population: 60 million
Currency: euro
Official language: Italian
Lucca is here!
Legends and tales:
a bridge to my European world!
ITALY
Comenius Project 2011 - 2013
MEETING IN POLAND November 2nd-8th 2011
What have we done till now?
Project Comenius
Double aim
• PUPILS GATHER
INFORMATION
ABOUT
PARTNERS:
THEIR CAPITAL,
FLAG, TYPICAL
FOOD, SPORT,
TOWNS, ETC..
• PUPILS READ
LEGENDS AND TALES
OF THEIR LANDS.
Pupils meet the new partners !
•FINLAND
•GERMANY
•HUNGARY
•POLAND
We made posters
about partners
Now pupils know
partners FLAG,
CAPITAL,
TYPICAL FOOD,
DANCE and of
course CASTLES.
ALL THE COUNTRIES AROUND THE BIG CASTLE
Pupils made bookmarks with castles.
LOGOS
And now we vote!
ITALIAN MASCOTTE 1
ITALIAN MASCOTTE 2
PROJECT DIARY
This is the
project diary
of Collodi
primary school.
Many classes read a lot of legends
to discover some typical elements
of this kind of tales:
GHOST
CASTLE
BEATIFUL GIRL
MANY YEARS AGO…
We especially found this elements in
Malaspina legend and Lucida Mansi legend.
La leggenda del castello di Fosdinovo
The legend of Fosdinovo castle
THE CASTLE OF FOSDINOVO:
The legend
of Bianca Maria Malaspina
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The castle lives, as well as its architectural splendor and landscape, including its famous legends.
The most famous is undoubtedly that which concerns the young Bianca Maria Aloysia, daughter
of Jacob (James) and Malaspina Olive Grimaldi. The beautiful girl was madly in love with a young
groom who wanted to marry at all costs. Parents, contrary to that love for the infamous coat of
arms the whole family, however, had threatened to shut her up the poor with bread and water in
the dungeons of the Castle. The young, not at all frightened by those threats, he had desisted
from their purpose of love. Rebellious attitude had forced parents to take a harsh decision. And so
it was that the groom was withdrawn from the country and the young woman locked in a convent.
Not that he wanted to take the vows or renounce his romantic dream. It was then reported to the
castle, locked in prisons and tortured until he wised up. Yet his will was bent. Only then, to avoid
occasions of sin, was buried alive in a cell, along with a dog, a symbol of fidelity, and a boar, a
symbol of rebellion.
To confirm the authenticity of the story, which happened in the recent excavations carried out
during the work of consolidation, remains were found bones belonging probably to a girl and two
animals.
It is thought that the full moon, the ghost of Bianca Maria still lingers about the rooms of the castle,
in the form of a girl with long hair resting on her back.
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the legend reworked by
pupils
• Third class pupils have heard, read, drew the legend of
Bianca Maria Malaspina ….
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the legend reworked by
pupils
…Then, THROUGH the melody of a song they
already knew, the children wrote the lyrics and
sang the story of the legend
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LA LEGGENDA DI BIANCA MARIA
MALASPINA
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LA CANZONE
BIANCA MARIA ERA UNA BAMBINA
CHE IL CASO VOLLE, FOSSE NATA ALBINA,
PER QUESTO LEI DOVETTE RESTAR SOLA,
SENZA GIOCARE E SENZA ANDARE A SCUOLA.
SOLA FIN DALLA PRIMA COLAZIONE,
SENZA CONOSCER MAI NUOVE PERSONE,
MA UN RE SENZA CORONA E SENZA SPADA
LA SALUTO’ UN BEL GIORNO DALLA STRADA.
L’ORO DEL SOLE HA NEI SUOI CAPELLI
E COME IL CIELO, HA AZZURRI GLI OCCHI BELLI,
S’INNAMORO’ DI LUI, COSI’ DI SCHIANTO
E LE SEMBRO’ DI NON AVER MAI PIANTO
MA IL SUO PAPA’ SI ACCORSE DELLA STORIA
E VOLLE NE PERDESSE LA MEMORIA:
LEI FU MANDATA DRITTA IN UN CONVENTO
E IL GIOVANE SPARI’ COME IL VENTO.
NIENTE PIU’ SGUARDI E RAPIDI SALUTI,
DALLE SUORE NON ERANO VOLUTI.
UN GIORNO RITORNO’ NEL SUO CASTELLO,
DOVE NON C’ERA MAI NIENTE DI BELLO.
DICONO POI CHE QUANDO RINCASO’
CI FU QUALCUNO CHE LA IMPRIGIONO’,
INSIEME A DUE ANIMALI ASSAI FEROCI
PER POTER CONFONDERE LE VOCI.
E’ LA LEGGENDA DI BIANCA MARIA
DA TRAMANDARE A TUTTI IN OGNI VIA.
OGGI PER QUESTO LEI E’ UN FANTASMA
RESPIRA NEL CASTELLO COME ASMA.
OGGI PER QUESTO LEI E’ UN FANTASMA
RESPIRA NEL CASTELLO COME ASMA.
The legend of Bianca Maria
Malaspina
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BIANCA MARIA WAS A LITTLE GIRL
AS LUCK WOULD THAT, WAS BORN WITH WHITE HAIR
SO SHE HAD TO STAY ALONE,
FREE PLAY WITHOUT GOING TO SCHOOL.
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ONLY ONE FROM THE FIRST BREAKFAST,
NEW PEOPLE WITHOUT EVER KNOW,
BUT A KING WITHOUT CROWN AND SWORD
WELCOME TO THE 'A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE STREET.
HAS THE GOLD OF THE SUN IN HIS HAIR
AND LIKE THE SKY HAS BEAUTIFUL BLUE EYES,
SHE FALLS IN LOVE 'HIM, SO' CRASHING
AND IT SEEMS' THAT SHE NEVER CRY
HER FATHER BUT THEIR HISTORY NOTICED
HE WOULD NEITHER LOST MEMORY:
SHE WAS SENT STRAIGHT IN A CONVENT
AND THE YOUNG SHOOT AS LIKE THE WIND.
NO MORE 'QUICK LOOK AND GREETINGS,
THE SISTERS WERE NOT INTENDED.
RETURN ONE DAY 'IN HER CASTLE,
WHERE EVER THERE WAS NOTHING GOOD.
THEY SAY THAT WHEN HE CAME HOME '
THERE WAS SOMEONE THAT IMPRISONED ',
WITH TWO WILD ANIMALS
IN ORDER TO CONFUSE THE VOICES.
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THE LEGEND OF MARY WHITE
TO BE PASSED ON TO ALL IN ANY WAY.
TODAY SHE IS A GHOST AND
BREATHE IN THE CASTLE AS ASTHMA.
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TODAY SHE IS A GHOST AND
BREATHE IN THE CASTLE AS ASTHMA.
A GHOST AT SCHOOL
• WE BUILT THE GHOST OF BIANCA MARIA
And this is the legend about LUCIDA MANSI, a
beautiful girl that lived in Villa Mansi, near Lucca.
This is Villa Mansi
• This is the Villa
where Lucida
lived
Lucida, young
and beautiful
girl, killed her
old and rich
husband.
Lucia was
extremely vain.
But one day, she
discovered on her
face a wrinkle….
“Aaahhhhhh” –
she cried
So she made a pact
with the devil: she
was young for
another 30 years and
after this time the
devil took her soul.
After 30
years,
Lucida tried
to stop the
time. But the
clock kept
ticking ….
When the devil arrived, he
got Lucida on his firy
carriage. They rushed
around Lucca’s walls and
then the devil threw Lucida
into a pond, where to this
day you can see Lucida’s
face….
This is the pond where it’s possibile to see Lucida’s face!
The youngest pupils read
the legend of
STROZZAVOLPE
CASTLE
• This legend is about a fox that lived nera
Strozzavolpe castle…
… a strange fox because it
spewed fire from its mouth!
Finally the lord of the castle strangled the fox.
Its body was filled with gold and walled up
inside the castle.
But someone says that, to this day, the ghost
of the fox is still in the castle….
INFANT SCHOOL
• 5 YEARS PUPILS introduce theirselves to the
European friends through DRAWINGS..
Beautiful princesses!
ARRIVEDERCI!!!