cicalata

_cicalata_ and gossip of the street-corner, to which our Florentines are excessively addicted; but still more if you had not clogged your memory with those frivolous productions of which Luigi Pulci has furnished the most peccant exemplar -- a compendium of extravagances and incongruities the farthest removed from the models of a pure age, and resembling rather the _grylli_ or conceits of a period when mystic meaning was held

Romola George Eliot 1849