| Back | Behind them came the Countess Trifaldi, the squire Trifaldin of the White Beard leading her by the hand, clad in the finest unnapped black baize, such that, had it a nap, every tuft would have shown as big as a Martos chickpea; the tail, or skirt, or whatever it might be called, ended in three points which were borne up by the hands of three pages, likewise dressed in mourning, forming an elegant geometrical figure with the three acute angles made by the three points, from which all who saw the peaked skirt concluded that it must be because of it the countess was called Trifaldi, as though it were Countess of the Three Skirts; and Benengeli says it was so, and that by her right name she was called the Countess Lobuna, because wolves bred in great numbers in her country; and if, instead of wolves, they had been foxes, she would have been called the Countess Zorruna, as it was the custom in those parts for lords to take distinctive titles from the thing or things most abundant in their dominions; this countess, however, in honour of the new fashion of her skirt, dropped Lobuna and took up Trifaldi. |
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| Front | Tras ellas venía la condesa Trifaldi, a quien traía de la mano el escudero Trifaldín de la Blanca Barba, vestida de finísima y negra bayeta por frisar, que, a venir frisada, descubriera cada grano del grandor de un garbanzo de los buenos de Martos. La cola, o falda, o como llamarla quisieren, era de tres puntas, las cuales se sustentaban en las manos de tres pajes, asimesmo vestidos de luto, haciendo una vistosa y matemática figura con aquellos tres ángulos acutos que las tres puntas formaban, por lo cual cayeron todos los que la falda puntiaguda miraron que por ella se debía llamar la condesa Trifaldi, como si dijésemos la condesa de las Tres Faldas; y así dice Benengeli que fue verdad, y que de su propio apellido se llama la condesa Lobuna, a causa que se criaban en su condado muchos lobos, y que si como eran lobos fueran zorras, la llamaran la condesa Zorruna, por ser costumbre en aquellas partes tomar los señores la denominación de sus nombres de la cosa o cosas en que más sus estados abundan; empero esta condesa, por favorecer la novedad de su falda, dejó el Lobuna y tomó el Trifaldi. |
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