the tradition started from patriarch francesco barbaro in the church of st. mary in the castle of udin, from 1596 and 1616. since the end of the 17th century many authors wrote many "nunsiadis", among the other zuan tite tomadin, antoni de zorz, meni pecile, vigji comencin, zuan tite candot, jacop tomadin and vitori franz. the version of candot is the most singed nowadays.