Aaj) The Origins, The Battle Of Zappolino Poem by Paolo Giuseppe Mazzarello

'In which one gets good fat,
If one does not get vain'
Dante

Bologna,1295. Mazarello da Cuzzano was born. Www.condottieridiventura.it.
He had a castle in Cuzzano, near there, and became lord of Monteveglio.
He was commander of a group of mercenaries.
He got married with Nicolosa Pepoli, granddaughter of the lord of Guelph Bologna,
However he was in Ghibelline Modena's pay.
The Pope Boniface VIII sent Bologna to a sort of crusade against Modena,
Mazarello took part in the battle of Zappolino, in his well known land.
The Modeneses won, run after the Bologneses and as trophy they took away the bucket of a well.
Joking, the poet Tassoni would write the composition 'The Battle of the Stolen Bucket'.
Really two thousand warriors died, nothing changed,
The lord of Modena Passerino Bonaccolsi would make a mint.
On the contrary Mazarello was arrested by a cardinal,
Lost Monteveglio that passed into Taddeo Pepoli's hands, lord of Bologna.