parrucca

Updated: May 13, 2025

See Foscolo, Discorso sul Testo, p. 432. He says, that in Verona, where descendants of the poet survive, they call it Alìgeri. But names, like other words, often wander so far from their source, that it is impossible to ascertain it. Who would suppose that Pomfret came from Pontefract, or wig from parrucca?

Leigh Hunt - Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 1