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The original: A Ceppo si faceva un presepino con la sua brava stella inargentata, coi Magi, coi pastori, per benino e la campagna tutta infarinata. La sera io recitavo un sermoncino con una voce da messa cantata, e per quel mio garbetto birichino buscavo baci e pezzi di schiacciata. Poi verso tardi tu m’accompagnavi alla nonna con dir: “Stanotte L’Angelo ti porterà chi sa che bei regali!”. E mentre i sogni m’arridean soavi, tu piano, piano mi venivi a mettere confetti e soldarelli fra’ i guanciali.\ Gabriele D’Annunzio is not usually the author you’d associate with simple little nursery rhymes about kids reciting religious stuff and getting candy from their grandma for Christmas. One would instead link him with aestheticism, decadentism, First World War, daring airplane manouvers, Mussolini and, yes, weird sexual legends. And yet here we are, reading precisely a cute little nursery rhyme. It is an early composition, and I don’t claim it to be a masterpiece, but it doesn’t need to be.…

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