{"id":6580,"date":"2021-08-20T00:03:42","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T22:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/misteri\/"},"modified":"2021-11-23T15:28:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T14:28:33","slug":"misteri","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/themes\/festivals\/misteri\/","title":{"rendered":"The Misteri"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The Misteri <\/h1>\n<div class=\"testo\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The <em>Misteri<\/em>&nbsp;indicated, according to the medieval sense of the term, the staging or the representation of some mysteries of religion, and in particular the mystery of salvation. It was mostly an explanation of the revelation and the final phase of the life of Jesus Christ, his trial, conviction, execution on the Cross and the Resurrection. The model for the representation with wooden statues, as in <a href=\"\/en\/territories\/regional-routes\/south-eastern-sicily\/1693-a-disastrous-earthquake\/trapani\/\" title=\"Trapani\">Trapani<\/a>, is only one of the modes of representation. Very popular are the theatrical representations of the mysteries interpreted by actors, or processions in costume representing the passion and Christ with the cross on the shoulder, such as in <a href=\"#\" class=\"tooltip yellow-tooltip\">Marsala<span>Marsala is the most populous municipality in the province of Trapani and the fifth most populous of entire Sicily. It rises on the ruins of the ancient Punic city of <em>Lilibeo<\/em> (hence the epithet of <em>lilibetani<\/em> for its residents), but it owes its name to the period of Arab rule: Mars-Allah means in fact &#8220;Port of Allah&#8221;. It is famous above all for the landing of Garibaldi and the Thousand occurred on May 11, 1860.<\/span><\/a>. In Savona these representations are&nbsp; called <em>Casse<\/em>, in Genoa <em>Casazze<\/em>. Giuseppe Pitr\u00e8 writes of a sacred representation organized by the <a href=\"\/en\/territories\/international-routes\/genoa\/\" title=\"Genoa\">Genoese nation<\/a> in <a href=\"\/en\/territories\/international-routes\/genoa\/a-rich-and-powerful-community\/palermo\/\" title=\"Palermo\">Palermo<\/a> in 1591. Often these representations were accompanied by flagellants who struck their body with sharp tools or wore hair shirts as a form of penance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/en\/themes\/festivals\/sacre-rappresentazioni\/\" title=\"Sacre Rappresentazioni\">&lt;&lt;&lt;&#8212;previous page<\/a> &nbsp; <a href=\"\/en\/themes\/festivals\/the-holy-week-in-sicily\/\" title=\"The Holy Week in Sicily\">next page&#8212;&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Misteri The Misteri&nbsp;indicated, according to the medieval sense of the term, the staging or the representation of some mysteries of religion, and in particular the mystery of salvation. It was mostly an explanation of the revelation and the final phase of the life of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5900,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6580","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11728,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6580\/revisions\/11728"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}