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quotTarantellaquot by Hilaire Belloc read by Tom OBedlam
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The Tarantella is a dance supposedly similar to the frenzy produced by the bite of a spider or of falling in love. Miranda was a real lady whom Belloc had met 20 years before. • Here's the voice of Belloc of himself - he sings it: • • Hear the Voice of Hilaire Belloc • The Conventional Story is: • The inn in the High Pyrenees referred to in the poem is the inn at Canfranc, a small mountain village in the valley of the River Aragon, where Belloc met Miranda Mackintosh in 1909. In 1929 he wrote the poem and gave it to her as a present. • However Miranda Mackintosh replied: • It has been suggested in various web sites that I, Miranda Mackintosh, am the original Miranda to whom Hillaire Belloc refers in his poem 'Tarantella'. This is not true. Hillaire Belloc was a life long friend of my father, Hugh Mackintosh, and our family. In 1929, when I was two years old, he wrote it out on vellum and gave it to me as a present. • In an accompanying letter to my father he explained that the poem had evolved over twenty years and that the poem he had given me was not the final version, nor indeed the one that he preferred, but that it had the merit of being the original one. • • It has been suggested by a distinguished historian that the Miranda referred to could have been the mayor of a small Spanish town with whom Belloc often went hunting.
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