Quarantined and separated, they hid from the invisible disease. But at home, they relished what rema
Quarantined and separated, they hid from the invisible disease. But at home, they relished what remained of that intimacy. A surviving 17th-century report recounts the story of two Florentine teenagers, Maria and Cammilla, who were arrested for dancing in their home, when the movement had been banned. “In order to pass the time we dressed our brother up in a mask, and we were dancing among ourselves,” the girls said during their trial. https://theattic.jezebel.com/dancing-through-our-bad-year-1842274184 -- source link