Patten (shoe) dung and human effluent (from chamber pots)– was usually thrown directly into the street (often with minimal advance warning). Making full foot contact with such an unpleasant surface was, understandably, highly undesirable. Thus, pattens tended to only make contact with the ground through two or three strips of wood and raised the wearer up considerably, sometimes by four inches (ten centimetres) or more in contrast to clogs which usually have a low, flat-bottomed sole integral to the shoe. A later pattern of patten which seems to date from the 17th century, and then became the most common, had a flat
War of the Bucket the Modenese took a bucket from a well just outside a city gate as a trophy. 17th-century Italian poet Alessandro Tassoni composed the mock-heroic epic "La secchia rapita" on the events of the War of the Bucket. An ancient wooden bucket is kept in the Torre della Ghirlandina in Modena to this day. It is said to be the bucket taken from Bologna before the battle, or afterward as a trophy. After the war, Ghibelline power had risen up once again, but the wars were not over. In 1447, the Ghibellines encountered failures when the Ambrosian Republic was created and