Roberto Tessari, a Master of a University of the Past

Abstract

Roberto Alonge remembers a pupil of a great Italianist Giovanni Getto, Roberto Tessari, who became one of the founding fathers of the History of Theatre discipline, one of the world’s leading specialists in the Commedia dell’Arte, but capable of dominating multiple sectors of theatrical culture (from Greek dramaturgy to that of the eighteenth century, from that of the twentieth century to the problems of anthropological theatre). Alonge draws the portrait of a discreet and reserved scholar to whom the Italian University – always not very attentive to the quality and originality of its studies – has little generously recognized merits and honours.