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Article: "Ambasciatore della risa": La commedia dell'arte nel secondo Cinquecento (1545-1590).(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- December 22, 2006
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Philiep Bossier. "Ambasciatore della risa": La commedia dell'arte nel secondo Cinquecento (1545-1590).
Florence: Franco Cesati Editore, 2004. 408 pp. index. bibl. [euro]27. ISBN: 88-7667-155-2.
For his description of the situation of the commedia dell'arte in the second half of the sixteenth century, Philiep Bossier summarizes a large current body of research on the commedia, particularly that produced at the Universities of Florence and Rome. The central period of oral, improvised, professional comedy opens in Padua with the first-known contract for a troupe, three years after the era of individual court buffoons and author-actors was brought to a close ...