Argument of this paper are political and moral farses and comedies performed during the meals of Florentine Signoria, at the beginning of XVIth century, in order not only to offer an amusement to their members, who were constrained to remain closed in their palace for all the two months of their charge, but also to communicate them political, ethical and moral messages related to the actual situation and necessities. The contribution analyzes some plays and their authors with the aim to underline how this kind of dramaturgy was completely peculiar of Florentine culture because, in its structure and contents, it derived on one hand from the intersection between sacred play and classical comedy, and on the other hand, from the performative tradition of heralds and improvisers actors, who had a crucial role in republican Florence as city’s ‘political voices’

Oggetto dell’intervento sono le farse e le commedie politiche e morali che venivano recitate alla mensa della Signoria fiorentina, all’inizio del XVI secolo, allo scopo non solo di offrire uno svago ai suoi membri, costretti a rimanere chiusi nel loro palazzo per tutti i due mesi del loro mandato, ma anche di comunicare loro messaggi politici, etici e morali legati alle contingenze e alle necessità del momento. Il saggio analizza alcuni testi e i loro autori, con l’intento di evidenziare come questo tipo di drammaturgia fosse del tutto peculiare di Firenze, in quanto, sul piano strutturale e contenutistico, essa fu il frutto, da un lato della commistione fra la sacra rappresentazione e la commedia classica, e dall’altro della tradizione recitativa di araldi e canterini, di cui la Firenze repubblicana fu un’eccezionale fucina anche per il loro ruolo di ‘voci politiche’ della città

Ventrone, P., ‘Civic performance’ in Renaissance Florence, in Dall’Aglio, S., Richardson, B., Rospocher, M. (ed.), Voices and Texts in Early Modern Italian Society, Routledge, London 2017: 153- 169 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/95076]

‘Civic performance’ in Renaissance Florence

Ventrone, Paola
Primo
2017

Abstract

Argument of this paper are political and moral farses and comedies performed during the meals of Florentine Signoria, at the beginning of XVIth century, in order not only to offer an amusement to their members, who were constrained to remain closed in their palace for all the two months of their charge, but also to communicate them political, ethical and moral messages related to the actual situation and necessities. The contribution analyzes some plays and their authors with the aim to underline how this kind of dramaturgy was completely peculiar of Florentine culture because, in its structure and contents, it derived on one hand from the intersection between sacred play and classical comedy, and on the other hand, from the performative tradition of heralds and improvisers actors, who had a crucial role in republican Florence as city’s ‘political voices’
2017
Inglese
Voices and Texts in Early Modern Italian Society
9781472485311
Routledge
Ventrone, P., ‘Civic performance’ in Renaissance Florence, in Dall’Aglio, S., Richardson, B., Rospocher, M. (ed.), Voices and Texts in Early Modern Italian Society, Routledge, London 2017: 153- 169 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/95076]
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