Bosinade also make occasional appearances in the plots of the stories and poems from these authors; in La Ninetta del Verzee ("Ninetta of the Verziere") by Porta, for example, the main character Ninetta hires a bosin to write a composition on her lover, who mistreats and exploits her, to hold him up to ridicule as a form of revenge. Bosinate continued until the early 20th century. Some of the last known bosinade include La Balonada by Gaetano Crespi (1907), about a hot air balloon race, or Delagrange volerà! ("Delagrange will fly") on the flight experiments by Léon Delagrange. Structure The bosinata did not have a fixed or codified structure. The meter itself was not fixed, and sometimes different meters were used in the same poem; in fact, irregular verses were quite common, as this reflects the popular and coarse nature of bosinade. Ottonari (octameters) and endecasillabi (hendecasyllables) were the most recurring meters. Verses usually came in rhyming couplets. Notes References Sources Bernardino Biondelli (1853), Saggio sui dialetti gallo-ítalici. Francesco Cherubini (1816), Collezione delle migliori opere scritte in dialetto milanese, Pirotta, Milan Gaetano Crespi (1907), La balonada. Satira giornalistica in sestine milanesi di G.C., Libreria Renato Baggio, Milan Ferdinando Fontana (1901), Antologia Meneghina, E. Colombi, Bellizona Cesare Repossi (1985), "Bibliografia delle Bosinate in dialetto milanese (1650-1848)", in: F. Della Peruta, R. Leydi, A. Stella, eds., Milano e il suo territorio, Silvana ed., Milan External links Text of some bosinate from the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense See also Western Lombard literature Western Lombard language Culture in Milan Poetic forms