Frequent questions

Of course, we recall real past lives and situations. Everyone can parade, of any age, even young children. Young children can’t always parade holding hands with their mothers because gentlewomen did not use to do it. Actually children parade very close to their mothers, with their nannies. What it concerns the beauty, it’s important to know that aesthetic standards were different from today. Being beautiful is feeling like a Madonna of that time. 

Many characters are represented like nobles, knights, ladies, musicians, armed men, dancers, actors, etc. We are engaged in the study and in the revisitation of the dances of the period to which we refer to, in the study of the treaties of arms represented through our Renaissance fencing, and in the music that accompanied the life of that time.

It is a very sustainable commitment. There is an annual renewable enrollment for insurance purposes. It is then required a presence  for 3 or 4 evenings during the year in order to be well preparered for our public events. It is also required a presence for a couple of Sunday mornings for the event called “Omaggio al Duca” (“Tribute to the Duke”) that take piace in the Castle Court. Of course the most important events for us take place during the whole month of May, the parades through Corso Ercole d’Este or Piazza Ariostea.  All these events are nonetheless voluntary, but you will soon realize that they are really a pleasure. All this in a fair and not snobbish ambience… even if we are the “Ducal Court”!