une jeune presse
De tous costez sur les tapis tendus,
Honnestement aux girons espandus
De leur maîtresse.
B. Rossi’s Fiammella was given at Paris in 1584 with a setting of ‘boschi’.
[45] Lanson, loc. cit. 424.
[46] The plan is in J. A. Du Cerceau, Les Plus Excellens Bastimens de France (1576–9), and is reproduced in W. H. Ward, French Châteaux and Gardens in the Sixteenth Century, 14; cf. R. Blomfield, Hist. of French Architecture, i. 81, who, however, thinks that Du Cerceau’s ‘bastiment en manière de théâtre’ was not the long room, but the open courtyard, in the form of a square with concave angles and semicircular projections on each side, which occupies the middle of the block.
[47] Prunières, Ballet de Cour, 72, 134.
[48] Bapst, 147, reproduces an example. This is apparently the type of French stage described by J. C. Scaliger, Poetice (1561), i. 21, ‘Nunc in Gallia ita agunt fabulas, ut omnia in conspectu sint; universus apparatus dispositis sublimibus sedibus. Personae ipsae nunquam discedunt: qui silent pro absentibus habentur’.
[49] Rigal, 36, 46, 53.