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Bernini and Roman Commedie Ridicolose

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Jackson I. Cope
Jackson I. Cope*
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University of Southern California, Los Angeles
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Abstract

Gianlorenzo Bernini's single surviving playscript offers a satire on Bernini's own fame as a creator of scenic stage marvels as well as a satiric analysis of his younger painter-playwright rival from Naples, Salvator Rosa. But Bernini's play also raises general issues about the relations of amateurs and professionals in the leveling context of carnival, about the effect of printing on a subgenre of the improvisational scenarii of the commedia dell' arte as printed texts established a popular reading audience in seventeenth-century Rome, and about the concept of “popular” in the relations of class and genre implicit not only in Bernini's satire but in much of the seventeenth-century generic mixing that took place far outside the exemplary conditions of the Roman commedie ridicolose.

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PMLA , Volume 102 , Issue 2 , March 1987, pp. 177 - 186
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1987

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