Five comedies from the Italian renaissance / translated and edited by Laura Giannetti & Guido Ruggiero.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Giannetti, Laura.

Ruggiero, Guido, 1944-

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Italian drama--To 1700--Translations into English.

Italian drama.

Italian drama (Comedy)--Translations into English.

Italian drama (Comedy).

Physical Description:

xlii, 321 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

Translated from the Italian.

Summary:

At the turn of the sixteenth century, Italian playwrights rediscovered and recast an old art form -- the ancient Latin comedy -- to create witty, ribald, and intricately plotted plays that delighted Renaissance audiences with their clever reversals of gender and class roles. Five Comedies from the Italian Renaissance brings together the best of these works in lively new translations by Laura Giannetti and Guido Ruggiero, who also place the comedies in their cultural and social context. Presenting a fresh perspective on the Italian Renaissance, these deft translations allow modern readers to experience the original artistry and carnivalesque humor of these delightfully profane and irreverent literary classics.

Contents: The Comedy of Calandro by Bernardo Dovizi de Bibbiena; The Mandrake Root by Niccol? Machiavelli; The Master of the Horse by Pietro Aretino; The Deceived by the Academy of the Intronati of Siena; and A Venetian Comedy (anonymous)

Contents:

La Calandra (The Comedy of Calandro) / by Bernardo Dovizi da Bibbiena

La mandragola (The Mandrake Root) / by Niccolò Machiavelli

Il Marescalco (The Master of the Horse) / by Pietro Aretino

Gl'ingannati (The Deceived) / by the Academy of the Intronati of Siena

La Veniexiana (The Venetian Comedy) / Anonymous.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

080187257X

0801872588

OCLC:

50028686