英语词汇pasquinade的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

pasquinade. The first pasquinades, witty lampoons or satires, especially those posted in a public place, were hung upon an ancient statue unearthed in Rome in 1501 and reerected near the Piazza Navona by Cardinal Caraffa. The mutilated old stat- ue, possibly a likeness of Ajax, Menelaus, or some unknown gladiator, was dubbed Pasquino—either because that had been the name of the Roman gladiator represented or more probably because it stood opposite quarters where a sharp-witted, scandal-loving old man named Pasquino had lived. Pasquino, variously described as a barber, tailor, cobbler, and school- teacher, had died some years previously. But it became custom- ary on St. Mark’s Day to salute and mockingly ask advice from the statue named for the caustic old man, such requests being posted on the statue after a while. These written Latin verses soon took the form of barbed political, religious, and personal satires, often upon the Pope, which were called pasquinate; a book of such squibs was published in 1509.

词汇	pasquinade
词源	pasquinade. The first pasquinades, witty lampoons or satires, especially those posted in a public place, were hung upon an ancient statue unearthed in Rome in 1501 and reerected near the Piazza Navona by Cardinal Caraffa. The mutilated old stat- ue, possibly a likeness of Ajax, Menelaus, or some unknown gladiator, was dubbed Pasquino—either because that had been the name of the Roman gladiator represented or more probably because it stood opposite quarters where a sharp-witted, scandal-loving old man named Pasquino had lived. Pasquino, variously described as a barber, tailor, cobbler, and school- teacher, had died some years previously. But it became custom- ary on St. Mark’s Day to salute and mockingly ask advice from the statue named for the caustic old man, such requests being posted on the statue after a while. These written Latin verses soon took the form of barbed political, religious, and personal satires, often upon the Pope, which were called pasquinate; a book of such squibs was published in 1509.
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