Editing Fat Thursday (section)

===Italy===
[[File:Francesco Guardi - Carnival Thursday on the Piazzetta - WGA10852.jpg|thumb|''Carnival Thursday on the Piazzetta'', [[Francesco Guardi]], 1766–1770]]

{{lang|it|Giovedì grasso}} (Fat Thursday) is celebrated in Italy,<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4216941/fat_thursday_celebrated_by_the_romans/ "'Fat Thursday' Celebrated by the Romans"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202040359/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4216941/fat_thursday_celebrated_by_the_romans/ |date=February 2, 2017 }} ''Lebanon Daily News'' (February 27, 1930): 1. via [[Newspapers.com]] {{open access}}</ref> but it is not very different from {{lang|it|martedì grasso}} ([[Shrove Tuesday]]). In Venice at the turn of the twentieth century, for example, it was marked by "masquerades, a battle of flowers on the Plaza, a general illumination and the opening of the lottery".<ref>Dwight, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4217001/carnival_in_venice_1899/ "Carnival of Venice Opens"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160513054849/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4217001/carnival_in_venice_1899/ |date=May 13, 2016 }} ''The Times'' (Philadelphia) (February 10, 1899): 7. via [[Newspapers.com]] {{open access}}</ref> The English writer [[Marie Corelli]] mentioned {{lang|it|giovedì grasso}} (as "Giovedi Grasso") in her second novel, ''[[Vendetta!|Vendetta]]'' (1886), as a day when "the fooling and the mumming, the dancing, shrieking, and screaming would be at its height."<ref>Marie Corelli, [https://books.google.com/books?id=zmayCQAAQBAJ&dq=Corelli+Vendetta+Giovedi+Grasso&pg=PA376 ''Vendetta: A Story of One Forgotten''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118163005/https://books.google.com/books?id=zmayCQAAQBAJ&lpg=PA376&ots=mk2d3H9MS2&dq=Corelli%20Vendetta%20Giovedi%20Grasso&pg=PA376 |date=January 18, 2017 }} (Floating Press 2015): 376. {{ISBN|978-1776587513}}</ref>