Bosinada

The bosinada (IPA: [buziˈnaːda]) or bosinata (pl. bosinade, bosinad, or bosinate) was a traditional, popular poetic genre in Lombard language that began in the 18th century or earlier and reached its apex in the late 19th century. Bosinate were usually written or printed on sheets of paper and recited by a sort of cantastorie or minstrel called a bosin (IPA: [buˈzĩː]; pl. bosits IPA: [buˈzit]);^[a] they were usually satirical in content, sometimes explicitly designed to hold someone up to ridicule, or to debunk certain social habits or circumstances; in any case, they were the expression of the naive but sound good sense of the common people.^[1]

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