A history of Italian literature

by Richard Garnett

ITALIAN DRAMA

The fullest accounts of individual Italian dramatists will be found in Ginguené. The beginning of the Italian drama is investigated by D’Ancona in his Origini del Teatro in Italia, 1891; see also the volumes (iv.-vii.) devoted to Italy in Klein’s Geschichte des Dramas. D’Ancona has written a monograph on the Sacre Rappresentazioni (see p. 226). The Commedia dell’ Arte (pp. 305-307) is treated in Scherillo’s monograph with this title, in Maurice Sand’s Masques et Bouffons, and in Symonds’s preface to his translation of the memoirs of Carlo Gozzi, 1892.