page_title: Carnival of Satriano di Lucania
section_title: The lent (la Quaresima)
hierarchical_section_title: Carnival of Satriano di Lucania / Masks / The lent (la Quaresima)
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Autore: montescaglioso.net Fonte: montescaglioso.net Descrizione: Quaresime Licenza d'uso: libera Note: nessuna
context_page_description: The Carnival of Satriano, held in Satriano di Lucania, Italy every February, is one of the country's many carnivals. Held on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday before Fat Tuesday, it has been conducted for centuries. The event is among the most important carnival traditions of the region and of Italy and it is unique in that participants wear costumes, or masks, of bears, hermits, or lent.
context_section_description: The "Quaresima", depicted by men and women, represents an old woman dressed in black with a red face drawn from the mouth up to her cheeks. Covered by a black cloak and walking was a cradle on their head containing a child conceived during the Carnival by an unknown father, represents the difficulty that widowed women endured in the past. It proceeds along the streets of the country with slow and melancholy step, repeating shrill and loud words of deep despair.
  Lent, cross-eyed from crying, goes door-to-door saying, "Oh my God! I lost my companion."
  — translation of Quaresima's nursery rhyme
caption: The lent, or the woman in mourning
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