First of the seven comedies composed by the Ferrara humanist Tito Livio Frulovisi (c. 1400-1463), the Corallaria is characterized by a double intertwining, within which frequent contaminations between themes of classical comic tradition and motifs of novelistic origin are identified. Represented in Venice in 1432, probably by a company of professional actors, the Corallaria is configured as a "statary" comedy, since most of the events that occur there, rather than directly represented, are told by the characters. The title, evidently of a Plautian style, derives from the corals that the young Miles borrows from Faceto and gives to the old Claudipoti to encourage her marriage hopes (which, however, will have a very different outcome from what she expected). The scene is set in Pisa, even if it is evident from allusions and hints scattered throughout the text, that Frulovisi was thinking of Venice. It is also known that the performance of the comedy caused the author annoying accusations of plagiarism against a play by Iacopo Languschi, now lost, as well as of immorality. Frulovisi, however, defended himself from these accusations in the prologue of the Claudi duo, his second comedy, staged shortly after the performance of Corallaria. - The edition presented here, based on the inspiration of the only manuscript that has transmitted to us the theatrical corpus of Frulovisi (Cambridge, Library of St. John's College, C. 10, of the fifteenth century), is the second after the 'editio princeps, staged by Ch.W. Previté-Orton in 1932, and is accompanied by an extensive introduction, the Italian translation and the commentary notes.

Prima delle sette commedie composte dall’umanista ferrarese Tito Livio Frulovisi (1400-1463 c.), la Corallaria è caratterizzata da un doppio intreccio, entro il quale si individuano frequenti contaminazioni fra temi di tradizione comica classica e motivi di origine novellistica. Rappresentata a Venezia nel 1432, probabilmente da una compagnia di attori professionisti, la Corallaria si configura come una commedia “stataria”, dal momento che la maggiore parte degli eventi che vi si verificano, piuttosto che direttamente rappresentata, viene raccontata dai personaggi. Il titolo, di stampo evidentemente plautino, deriva dai coralli che il giovane Miles si fa prestare da Faceto e regala alla vecchia Claudipoti per incoraggiarne le speranze matrimoniali (che avranno, però, un esito ben diverso da quello da lei previsto). La scena è ambientata a Pisa, anche se risulta evidente, da allusioni e accenni disseminati nel testo, che il Frulovisi pensava a Venezia. Si sa, inoltre, che la recita della commedia provocò all’autore fastidiose accuse di plagio nei confronti di una commedia di Iacopo Languschi, oggi perduta, oltre che di immoralità. Da queste accuse il Frulovisi, comunque, si difese nel prologo dei Claudi duo, la sua seconda commedia, messa in scena a breve distanza di tempo dalla rappresentazione della Corallaria. - L’edizione che qui si presenta, fondata sull’inspectio dell’unico manoscritto che ci ha trasmesso il corpus teatrale del Frulovisi (Cambridge, Library of St. John’s College, C. 10, del secolo XV), è la seconda dopo l’editio princeps, allestita da Ch.W. Previté-Orton nel 1932, ed è corredata da un’ampia introduzione, dalla traduzione italiana e dalle note di commento.

Bisanti (2021). Corallaria. Firenze : SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo.

Corallaria

Bisanti
2021-12-01

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First of the seven comedies composed by the Ferrara humanist Tito Livio Frulovisi (c. 1400-1463), the Corallaria is characterized by a double intertwining, within which frequent contaminations between themes of classical comic tradition and motifs of novelistic origin are identified. Represented in Venice in 1432, probably by a company of professional actors, the Corallaria is configured as a "statary" comedy, since most of the events that occur there, rather than directly represented, are told by the characters. The title, evidently of a Plautian style, derives from the corals that the young Miles borrows from Faceto and gives to the old Claudipoti to encourage her marriage hopes (which, however, will have a very different outcome from what she expected). The scene is set in Pisa, even if it is evident from allusions and hints scattered throughout the text, that Frulovisi was thinking of Venice. It is also known that the performance of the comedy caused the author annoying accusations of plagiarism against a play by Iacopo Languschi, now lost, as well as of immorality. Frulovisi, however, defended himself from these accusations in the prologue of the Claudi duo, his second comedy, staged shortly after the performance of Corallaria. - The edition presented here, based on the inspiration of the only manuscript that has transmitted to us the theatrical corpus of Frulovisi (Cambridge, Library of St. John's College, C. 10, of the fifteenth century), is the second after the 'editio princeps, staged by Ch.W. Previté-Orton in 1932, and is accompanied by an extensive introduction, the Italian translation and the commentary notes.
Bisanti, A
dic-2021
Settore L-FIL-LET/08 - Letteratura Latina Medievale E Umanistica
Corallaria
978-88-9290-140-7
Bisanti (2021). Corallaria. Firenze : SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo.
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