Life and stage in Renaissance’s sienese comedy

Appunti sulla commedia senese cinquecentesca

Abstract

In 16th century in Siena prospers a unique model of comedy adventure, consumed and produced during academic holidays, full of references to the city life, that is often the result of different hands creation. This kind of comedy is characterize by the "pluringuismo", which means the centrality of female heroines, dressed like males, and protagonists of romantic adventures in a vibrant mix of comic and pathetic. The academy Intronati fixes the dramaturgical rules designed to have an extraordinary european fortune. This was possible thanks to the mediation of a specialized press, of the comedians of Art and of the Bargagli brothers, who build the memorial myth of this show culture after the fall of the republic.