Crossword-Solution: ACERRA 6 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

This character, peculiar to the local stage (who is supposed to have originated in Acerra, as Arlequino did in Bergamo), supported by his inseparable companion Pancrazio, poked fun to his heart's content, and in the raciest of burlesque, at all the latest Neapolitan occurrences and fashions, in a piece entitled Pulcinella alia Strada Ferrata.

Martiis caelebs quid agam Kalendis, Quid velint flores et acerra turis Plena miraris positusque carbo in Caespite vivo, Docte sermones utriusque linguae? 5 Voveram dulcis epulas et album Libero caprum prope funeratus Arboris ictu.

The cracked voice and peculiarities of this "great invention" are declared by Fiorillo and Signorelli to be imitations of the peculiarities of the peasants of Acerra, an ancient city in the neighbourhood of Naples.

The ‘acerra’ was properly a box used for holding incense for the purposes of sacrifice, which was taken from it, and placed on the burning altar.

There is a mingling of battle-cries--"Ho, for the Crested Boar of Kapparon!" "Stand, for the Aloe of Acerra!"--when for the third time the purple citron-flowers sway and break, as a third band of armed men spur to the lake-side.