Abstract
Francesco Peregrino Ariosto (1415-1484) wrote a comedy, the Isis, represented
during the carnival celebrations of 1444 at the court of Ferrara, in the presence of
Leonello d’Este and a lot of people. The Isis is transmitted by three manuscripts:
Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, 960; Modena, Biblioteca Estense, lat. 1096 =
alfa.Q.7.32; Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Lat. 8229. The Isis is a
humanistic comedy sui generis: it’s a dialogue in elegiac couplets, or rather the
juxtaposition of two monologues, between the young Carinus and the maiden Isis. The
text describes the history of a conversion: Isis, once a lover of festivals and songs,
decided to devote herself to prayer, after listening a preacher. The model is not the
classic comedy of Plautus and Terence, imitated only in the prologue, or the medieval
Latin elegiac comedy, but the production of Ovid’s exile.
| Titolo tradotto del contributo | [Autom. eng. transl.] The honest and chaste manners. La commedia Isis Francesco Ariofto |
|---|---|
| Lingua originale | Italian |
| Titolo della pubblicazione ospite | Comico e tragico nel teatro umanistico |
| Editor | Stefano Pittaluga, Paolo Viti |
| Pagine | 127-137 |
| Numero di pagine | 11 |
| Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2016 |
Keywords
- Francesco Ariosto
- Teatro umanistico