Excerpt from A Florentine Christmas of a Century Ago: The CeppoFlorentine house of the period. The Ceppo stands on a table loaded with presents, and a large family party is gathered round it. You must imagine little girls in hoop petticoats and little boys in bag-wigs and knee breeches, which formal attire by no means prevented them from, dancing and capering with delight in expectation of their Christmas presents. The links by which this elaborate erection has deve loped out of the simple log that is described by Boccaccio it is impossible to discover, but by the eighteenth century this trans formation of the Ceppo was established in Florence. It is curious to note that the word'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.