La secchia rapita

La secchia rapita (The stolen bucket) is a mock-heroic epic poem by Alessandro Tassoni based on the real life event of the same name, The war of the oaken bucket - 1325-1327 which was first published in 1622 (see 1622 in poetry); it tells of a war between the Italian cities of Modena and Bologna over the possession of a wooden bucket that later influenced Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock. "La secchia rapita" is also the name of a comic opera by Salieri, first performed in Vienna in 1772; one of the arias from the work was recorded by Cecilia Bartoli on her Salieri album.