Editing Medieval dance (section)

===Italy===
{{Main|Italian folk dance}}
[[Image:Lorenzetti Good Govt Detail.jpg|thumb|Lorenzetti 1338–1340]]

[[Dante Alighieri|Dante]] (1265–1321) has a few minor references to dance in his works but a more substantive description of the round dance with song from Bologna comes from Giovanni del Virgilio (floruit 1319–1327).<ref name="padovan">{{cite journal|last=Padovan|first=Maurizio|year=1985|title=Da Dante a Leonardo: la danza italiana attraverso le fonti storiche|journal=Danza Italiana|volume=3|pages=5–37}}</ref>

Later in the 14th century [[Giovanni Boccaccio]] (1313–1375) shows us the "carola" in Florence in the ''[[Decameron]]'' (about 1350–1353) which has several passages describing men and women dancing to their own singing or accompanied by musicians.<ref name="padovan"/> Boccaccio also uses two other terms for contemporary dances, ''ridda'' and ''ballonchio'', both of which refer to round dances with singing.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Nosow|first=Robert|year=1985|title=Dancing the Righoletto|journal=Journal of Musicology|volume=24|issue=3|pages=407–446|doi=10.1525/jm.2007.24.3.407}}</ref><ref name="bragaglia">{{cite book|last=Bragaglia|first=Anto Giulio|title=Danze popolari italiane|location=Roma|publisher=Edizioni Enal|year=1952}}</ref>

Approximately contemporary with the ''Decameron'' are a series of frescos in [[Siena]] by [[Ambrogio Lorenzetti]] painted about 1338–40, one of which shows a group of women doing a "bridge" figure while accompanied by another woman playing the [[tambourine]].<ref name="padovan"/>