Storia in parte oscura e sicuramente troubled to Mikez and Jakez 1 but has made the fortune of Gondrand . In the Trieste branch of the leader of removals still stands a commemorative plaque.
The first of the two statues date back to 1517.
Piazza Unità d'Italy in those days was called St. Peter's Square, but was commonly called Piazza Grande in Trieste because, you know, simple things do not like.
The square had not been buried and occupied about one third of its current size, was surrounded by buildings that isolated it from the sea. The facades of the buildings looked the interior of the square. Between them, the group of those who gave back to the sea, there was also Clock Tower , also called Torre del Porto , or even Tower Mandracchio , always Trieste because the simple things do not like, which in practice was the door of the square that gave the ancient port city, called Mandracchio (small basin), squeezed between the prisons and the Inn Grande.
In 1474, the Tower of Mandracchio venne modificata per la prima volta e nel 1517 l'antica porta venne abbellita con un orologio e con due personaggi in bronzo che scandivano le ore e che il popolo allora battezzò Mikez e Jakez ovvero Michele e Giacomo. Poiché erano di bronzo, le due statue si ossidarono in fretta ed assunsero una colorazione brunita o rossiccia, tanto che i triestini presero a chiamarli i mori di Piazza . Qualcuno però dice che il motivo del cambio di colorazione abbia avuto altre cause. Si racconta che un tal Jure , che era solito ciondolare in Piazza nelle prime ore del mattino, giurava e spergiurava di averli visti incazzati neri che discutevano tra loro e borbottavano: " Ma vara ti se in una cità con un mar cusì bel, i ne doveva meter giradi de spale! "
Nel 1700 i Mori vennero smontati ed al loro posto fu costruita una trifora con tre campane, mantenendo però intatto il movimento degli automi. Si ignora che fine fecero Mikez e Jakez , forse finirono in un deposito, forse finirono in mare, forse ancora furono fusi per ottenerne le stesse campane o altro.
Nel 1838 fu deciso l'abbattimento della Torre dell'Orologio , ma un'anima nostalgica volle recuperarne, chissà perché, il meccanismo.
This task was entrusted
watchmaker Antonio Sebastianutto who saw to remove the device from the tower and reassemble it on ' building of the Lodge, who was on the opposite side of the square, almost in place Town Hall now stands. Trieste Many shook their heads in a clear sign of approval.
In 1875, the Trieste architect Giuseppe Bruni won the competition to design a new building that should have closed the square from the side of the old town. The new building, the Town Hall , should be formed by a single body monumental dominated in the central part, by a clock tower.
But some remembered the two statues that adorn almost three centuries before the Clock Tower (Torre del Porto alias , alias Tower Mandracchio , again because in the Trieste Simple things do not like) and convinced Bruni how nice it would be nostalgic and get back the two so-called Mori .
The problem was that none of Trieste, as long-lived, had never seen live the two statues you just knew that there were two Mori and were nicknamed Mikez and Jakez . A bit 'too little for Bruni .
Nights and nights to devise means to create and destroy molds. She finally decided that two pages Tyrolean would have gone very well and would certainly have pleased the House of Habsburg.
I two pages zinc in 1875 were modeled by the sculptor Fausto moldings Ceneda Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia. For transportation from Venice to Trieste 2 was asked the fledgling home shipments Gondrand che utilizzò il suo carro ultimo modello trainato da una coppia di cavalli da tiro chiamati Bepìn e Giuanìn .
Il viaggio durò settimane, ma alla fine i due cavalli arrivarono stremati con il loro carico nella piazza che, dal 1918, dopo un breve periodo nel quale era stata denominata Piazza Francesco Giuseppe , aveva assunto il nome di Piazza Unità in onore dell'avvenuta annessione di Trieste all'Italia, ma che comunemente veniva chiamata ancora Piazza San Pietro o Piazza Grande perché in Trieste, you know, etc.. etc..
I two pages were installed between 5 and 7 January 1876 and fought the first twelve bells at noon on January 14 in front of a cheering crowd shaking his head in approval. The two statues were baptized by the Triestians with a flash of brilliant imagination, and Mikez Jakez .
But Fausto moldings Ceneda who was an enthusiastic (and a pain in the ass first class), he thought that if two statues were good, four would have been even better and so with that the bronze was advanced in forge, modeled two torchbearers to decorate the baby square in Trieste.
A BEPIN and Giuanin , who had not yet recovered from the trip, they came to the ears, the voices that we were to take two other statues, they pricked their manes and dismay on the road to Venice , nitrite after three times under the natural tunnel , decided by mutual agreement to cross the hooves. They took refuge in a Frasco drinking Clinto and spent their days sitting in a patio to eat sandwiches and talk about fillies bean, hay meadows and fats.
The
Gondrand not lose heart and instead of the two horses to the best of their renegade equinorimessa, Bepòn and Giuanòn (vulgar Deborah for close friends), a couple huge Belgian horses, the first quiet and shady, slow-footed and powerful, the second and garrulous tongue, waving dall'andatura and saucy.
When the horses arrived in unexpected Piazza San Pietro Piazza Grande, or if you prefer , Trieste remained of the stone and even more Bruni architect turned to which the catheter helix: the new place Palazzo Municipio de there was, it was unthinkable to create other niches, the palace was so beautiful.
Where to put the two statues, then? Well, in the square, next to the entrance of the new beloved Palace. And what to call them? Initially thought to Trieste something unusual, like Mikeza and Jakez , for example, but a stranger who was passing by chance suggested that perhaps it was better to a more traditional name like Tinz and Marianza . From the square there was a scream: "NO SE POL! . In fact, from that moment, the two torch-bearers were called Tinz and Marianza 3.
Trieste I decided that the two torchbearers were to be the wives of two pages which adorned the Town Hall party and made all day not realizing that zinc drops down from the eyes of Mikez and Jakez .
love for the new square was immortalized in a popular song that was more or less like this:
| wrong el palace of Xe, xe brute the sector and that Mikez and Jakez bati hours, | and Tinz and Marianza the is the doorway to see the Signora that comes from Liston. 4 |
(Xe el Palazio wrong! - Popular)
Bepòn was watching with puzzled eyes while Giuanòn was totally engrossed in the make-up rebuild.
Tinza e Marianza fecero bella mostra di sé ai lati dell'ingresso del Palazzo del Municipio fino al 1936 quando furono rimosse. Marianza qualche anno prima era stata irreparabilmente danneggiata dalla manovra avventata di un militare tedesco che la urtò by reversing a truck. No one saw at night the same military that climbed the clock tower to receive from the hands of a euphoric Jakez a bundle of Reichsmark 5.
It then did not know what happened to the two statues. The versions are countless. Some say that both of the statues lie forgotten in the bottom of one of the many stores of the Municipality of Trieste , others say that the damage was fused to obtain metal for the country and a stake in the garden of a fascist era, the fact is that nobody knows if they still exist and where they are finished.
Mikez and Jakez observed from all this bustle of statues removed and placed of fountains removed to make room for a stage and the crowds of monuments shot time here and now there depending of the moment, then when they can no longer raise their eyes and saw the sea, were lost in that universe blue and said: "ghe not that bad x el mar, el xe format that what servants. "
The time went on and who better than they could realize over time, articulating every hour every day that God put on earth?
automata watch The contract does not provide a specific date for retirement, but after nearly a century of honorable service , zinc shoulder a little 'sore after all those shots to the sound of bat on the bell , knew and hoped that soon they could lay your clubs and enjoy a well-deserved rest, maybe on that tower, perhaps on two iron chairs, perhaps in front of that sea and the sky clear, whipped by strong winds and sea breeze . But they had reckoned without his host .
In 1972 tubes began to climb the scaffolding Town Hall and climb and climb and climb came at the two pages that looked curious, but when Piazza came in a truck Gondrand began seriously worry. Two workers were talking among themselves, saying: "I them away for nine them."
" What a facelift! Iera now! " said Mikez winking at Jakez .
did not know the unfortunate in the palaces of the City had decided to clone them! A new bell and a new pair of pages , identical to the originals, had just been cast from the bronze foundry Cavadini and Brustolin of Verona. In October of that year were fitted to the Town Hall on November 3 and the two robots fought for the first time hours in a Square Unification of Italy packed to capacity. That happiness was to give a name to two statues again!
This time they wanted to leave nothing to chance and the choice of name, to Autoconvocate Cafe of Mirrors the elite of 'Intelligent Trieste, professors, doctors, writers, scientists, lighting luminaries, chandeliers gangly, pharmacists, future futurists, frittimisti, poets, saints and sailors.
hours of debate, more than a thousand names submitted, evaluated and rejected, arguments, threats, insults, insults and spitting, then towards the evening, opened the doors of Coffee , left a cloud Smoke and neurons and, in the cloud, a little man, bent and withered that someone recognized it as the Dean Emeritus of the Faculty of Science and Innovation Originality sensational University of Trieste.
was helped get on the table and turned the square in outline and anxiously awaiting the historic decision. " After careful consideration of the subject, examined the pros and cons and possible scenarios, consider all the objections raised, the evidence and alibi, appeals and contrappelli, sifting, analyzing, sifting and measuring, after hours of careful and thorough study past, present and future, without any concession to the fashions of the time and seasons, or the archaic or nostalgic hankering for next, or stereotypes or archetypes, or practices, practices, traditions, values \u200b\u200bor ethical or political or historical or hypothetical, and the fact that the weighted, estimated above and below the gutted here, study the court and approved the proceedings, We, Illustrious and Distinguished Talents of the arts, sciences and professions have established that the new statue that now adorn our beloved city hall should be mentioned with the names of Mikez and Jakez .
A roar rose from the packed square, gloves and scarves, hats and children, domestic and wild animals were launched into the air as a sign of joy.
Anyone passing from there in the evening hear the mumbles from behind the century-old portals: " Ciapa here! Who goes losses and lost place! I Siori the area, which to us smonarse in a doorway."
1. The names were passed down orally and appear at times as Michez and Jacheze, and other times as Mikez Jakez, other ancora come Mikeze e Jakeze.
2. Non è certo dove siano stati modellati Mikez e Jakez. Alcune fonti dicono a Venezia, nella fonderia Barotin, altre ad Udine.
3. Tinza e Polonza secondo altre fonti.
4. Con variante " a veder i greghi de via Malcanton " o ancora " a veder i cici che vendi carbon ".
5. Altre fonti imputano ad una vettura da piazza la manovra impruduente che danneggiò una delle due tedofore.
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