La SPERADA è composta da: 

• uno spillone con due olive alle estremità, detto "sponton" o "guggion". Veniva infilato nelle trecce che una "ragazza da marito" si raccoglieva per la prima volta sulla nuca;
• spilloni, detti spadine o "spadinn", che venivano regalati dal fidanzato alla ragazza che, da quel momento, era considerata "promessa sposa";
• spilloni a forma di cucchiaino, detti "fusellini" o "spazzaorecc". Lo sposo li regalava alla sposa il giorno del matrimonio e, successivamente, in altre occasioni speciali.

"... I neri e giovani capelli, spartiti sopra la fronte, con una bianca e sottile drizzature, si ravvolgevan, dietro il capo, in cerchi molteplici di trecce, trapassati da lunghi spilli d'argento, che si dividevan all'intorno, quasi a guisa de' raggi d'un aureola, come ancora usano le contadine del Milanese. ... "   
(Cap. II) 
 

We look forward to hearing from anyone who as information about the theme of this Exibition. 

It's made out of: 

- an large needle and two hat pins with olives at the extremities, called "sponton" or "guggion", and was given as a gift to young daughters by their parents; 

- a pair of hat-pins (literally "small swords") given to the girl by her fianceè.  From that moment the girl was a "promised bride"; 

- spoon-shaped hat-pins, called "fusellini" or "spazzaorecc". The bridge groom gave them to the bride on their wedding day. 

It is said that young girls and women, even the poorest, gave up important objects, but not the "Sperada". 

In his "Promessi Sposi", Manzoni described Lucia like the following: 

"... The jet-black, young hair, divided on the forehead, with a white and thin drizzature, were curled upon themselves behind her head, in multiple circular braids, penetrated by long silver hat-pins, which were divided on the outside, as if they were the rays from a halo, in the manner still employed by the peasant girls from the "Milanese" region...... " (Ch. II)