Chiostro gesuati - Palazzo della Scuola Sant’Anna (D. Tarantino)
Piazza Martiri della Libertà and the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Piazza Martiri della Libertà (L. Corevi, Comune di Pisa)After Napoleon's arrival in Italy, in the 'Jacobin triennium' (1798-99) some trees in the square, such as elms and plane trees, were considered the trees of liberty, symbol of republican life and of the fall of absolutist regimes. Used for civil ceremonies and celebrations, the first civil unions in history took place around them: if two married couples, in the presence of the mayor and three witnesses, made, clockwise, with the clapping of their hands, three rounds around the tree, they were married singing ...Sotto quest’albero di verdi foglie, O cari amici, Questa è mia moglie... Sotto a quest’albero bello e fiorito, Questi, il vedete, è mio marito. Se poi volevano divorziare (…Under this tree of green leaves, O dear friends, This is my wife... Under this beautiful and flowery tree, This, you see, is my husband). And if they wanted to get a divorce... they had to walk the same path three times in an anti-clockwise direction. Quick and easy.
