Je parle des farces, ou il n'y entre qu'une seule femme

the research, based on primary sources and unpublished materials, reconstruct the artistic life of the Countess Paolina Suardo Grismondi in Bergamo since 1775, when she began keeping a salon that became a destination for much of the intellighentia Italian and French of the eighteenth century. The countess also stages a theatrical company, of which this study reproduces motivations and repertoire which gave a decisive contribution to the cultural revival of the Bergamo society of the century