Italy is full of marvels hidden in plain sight. Beautiful and Inspiring… Funny and Disconcerting… Glorious and Silly… Every new day brings shocks of recognition. Can I share some of these with you?
"THE JEW": Who was Melchisedec? (2)
"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": 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.*
CALCIO AND THE SIEGE OF FLORENCE
The Florentine football team got well and truly shafted. For the umpteenth time. In Parma. On 24 February.
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