"THE JEW": Who was Melchisedec? (2)

This is how it all begins... Our first encounter with "the Jew" in The Jew - the title character in Michelangelo Buonarotti the Younger's play.

"THE JEW": Who was "Melchisedec"? (1)

"THE JEW": On Stage...

l'ebreo comm[edi]a bozza =

 the jew comedy rough draft

Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger left us more than two hundred pages of dialogue, stage notes and song lyrics for L'Ebreo - but not a complete and final draft of this intriguing and often very funny comedy. 

So, in the course of four hundred years - from 1614 until now - the work was never performed nor published nor even circulated in manuscript.

"THE JEW": Another Scene (2)

A pompous lawyer, a sleazy marriage broker and a Levantine Jew all walk into a bar...

"THE JEW": Opening Scene (1)

Giorgione, Double Portrait
Rome, Palazzo Venezia
















In the opening scene of L'Ebreo, Giovanni Barba, a love-struck bachelor, and his best friend Girolamo Amieri jump into the midst of an ongoing story.  

"THE JEW": Carnival in Florence (2)

The Triumph of Carnival, North Italian woodcut (16th C.)

A CARNEVALE, OGNI CARNE VALE!

No one knows who said it first. It's an old Italian proverb.

And please, don't even try to translate it.*

"THE JEW": CARNIVAL IN FLORENCE (1)

"Carnival in Florence?!"

"THE JEW": THE PLAY'S THE THING

 "Wow! That stuff is crazy enough to be Shakespeare!"

"THE JEW": A LOST PLAY BY MICHELANGELO THE YOUNGER (Florence)

I didn't go to Casa Buonarroti to find Jews.

I went to Casa Buonarroti to get away from them.

"THE JEW" IN CASA BUONARROTI (Florence)

L'Ebreo / The Jew by Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger.

A Day for Hasan... (Melbourne/Florence)

Self-invented rituals are always a little ridiculous - no matter how deeply they might be felt.

CALCIO AND THE SIEGE OF FLORENCE

The Florentine football team got well and truly shafted. For the umpteenth time. In Parma. On 24 February.