The Time Italy Went to War Over a Bucket

In 1325, Bologna and Modena went to war. Modena won, chased the Bolognese all the way back to their own city gates... and on the way out, grabbed a souvenir: an oak bucket from a well. Seven hundred years later, Modena still has it, a poet turned the whole thing into an epic about a bucket, and Bologna would still quite like it back. An animated history comedy from Ludicrous History, where the past is a lot weirder than they told you in school. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome back to Ludicrous History 0:15 Ch. 1: Neighbors from Hell 1:51 Ch. 2: The Great Bucket Heist 3:09 Ch. 3: It Was a Castle, Actually 4:34 Ch. 4: Two Hours at Zappolino 5:57 Ch. 5: Adding Insult to Injury 7:16 Ch. 6: La Secchia Rapita 8:30 Ch. 7: Epilogue: Seven Hundred Years of Bucket 9:46 Sources & The End SOURCES • Wikipedia: "War of the Bucket" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_B...) • Wikipedia: "Battle of Zappolino" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Za...) • Wikipedia: "La secchia rapita" (Alessandro Tassoni's mock-epic, and Antonio Salieri's 1772 opera) • Wikipedia: "Torre della Ghirlandina" • HistoryNet, on the War of the Oaken Bucket • TheCollector, on the War of the Bucket and its poem • Comune di Modena, on the Secchia Rapita in the Palazzo Comunale • UNESCO World Heritage Centre: Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, Modena #history #medieval #italy #modena #ludicroushistory