. . . I see no reason Why gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot.But I did forget the Fifth of November completely, until I happened to be working on some Gutenberg pages this morning from a history of the period. It's an extremely condensed history, jumping from a rapid description of John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Jamestown Colony to a quick note on Guido Fawkes. I'd never before associated the two events with the same decade. The smiling zeal to destroy impure societies rings a bell this week.
In 2021, when I was in York, I dined at a pub associated with Guy Fawkes. The food was quite good, and my associates said the beer likewise. He met supporters there before going to London, per tradition.
ReplyDeleteI remembered the day, but did not ask for Pennies for the Guy this year. During grad school, I asked a Canadian prof, and he dug a penny out of his pocket and, smiling, told me not to spend it all in one place. The undergrads were befuddled.
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Guido? I don't think I ever heard that before.
ReplyDeleteMe neither, but he had some kind of Spanish family origin (not Italian, surprisingly), and that's how this somewhat archaic history referred to him.
Delete"Guido" is the Italian version of the French/English "Guy"... Guy Fawkes switched the Italian version of his name in Spain, when he was in Spain seeking financial support for a Catholic rebellion in England. (He didn't get it.) He signed his confession as "Guido Fawkes" after several days of interrogation under torture.
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Ah, that explains my Spanish/Italian confusion from the text.
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