Article: Alessandro Napoli. Il racconto e i colori: "storie" e "cartelli" dell'Opera dei Pupi catanese.(Book Review)

Alessandro Napoli. Il racconto e i colori: "storie" e "cartelli" dell'Opera dei Pupi catanese. Palermo: Sellerio, 2002.

As the subtitle indicates, this volume explores two aspects of puppet theater in Catania: the illustrated cartelli that regularly announced puppet performances and the storie that comprised the episodes dramatized on stage. Yet the specificity of the title perhaps understates the breadth and scope of this study. The sources of the puppeteers' storie, after all, range from classical epic poems to medieval and Renaissance romance epics, encompassing as well various continuations and rewritings in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. ...

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