Renaissance Comedy : : The Italian Masters - Volume 1 / / Don Beecher, The Da Ponte Library.

A rich and multi-faceted aspect of the Italian Renaissance, the comedy has been largely overlooked as a cultural force during the period. In Renaissance Comedy, editor Donald Beecher corrects this oversight with a collection of eleven comedies representative of the principal styles of writing that d...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: 'Erudite' Comedy in Renaissance Italy / Beecher, Donald
  • The Pretenders / I suppositi / Ariosto, Ludovico
  • Cortigiana / La cortigiana / Aretino, Pietro
  • The Ragged Brothers / Gli straccioni / Caro, Annibal
  • Alessandro / L'alessandro / Piccolomini, Alessandro
  • The Sister / La sorella / Della Porta, Giambattista