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Traditional Carnival Stock Characters

31 Jan 2010

Le Maschere Tradizionali, the traditional carnival stock characters, are impersonations of “human types” in a caricature style. Until not long ago they were the main source of inspiration for carnival costumes.

Written by gloria and posted in Events in Tuscany, Italian Holidays

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