Word: nencio
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Below God's platform stood a second, wider one, representing the earth, and the scenes enacted there were surprising not for their grandeur but for their truth to human nature. In one version, the shepherds were three Apennine comics: Nencio, Bobbi and Randello. Nencio inclined to be difficult; he refused to go in search of the Child until after breakfast. The shepherds offered their cloaks to the Madonna for blankets, begging her not to be offended by the goat smell. Then one of them turned to the audience, and exclaimed: "Think how the Blessed Virgin had not so much...
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