This study reconstructs the history of the Manteo family marionette theater in New York City, provides translations of eight selected plays and 270 extant summaries, and offers comparative analyses uncovering how Agrippino Manteo's scripts creatively adapt Italian Renaissance chivalric poems and nineteenth-century prose compilations.
This study reconstructs the history of the Manteo family marionette theater in New York City, provides translations of eight selected plays and 270 extant summaries, and offers comparative analyses uncovering how Agrippino Manteo's scripts creatively adapt Italian Renaissance chivalric poems and nineteenth-century prose compilations.
Jo Ann Cavallo (Ph.D., Yale, 1987), Professor of Italian at Columbia University, has published widely on Italian chivalric epic, including The World beyond Europe in the Romance Epics of Boiardo and Ariosto and The Romance Epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso: From Public Duty to Private Pleasure.
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List of figures Acknowledgments Foreword by Alessandro Napoli Preface Introduction Part One The Sicilian Puppet Theater of Agrippino Manteo and Family Part Two Select Plays from the Paladins of France Cycle Conclusion Appendix 1: Marionettes owned by the Manteo family in the 1980s Appendix 2: Manteo marionettes donated to the Italian American Museum in 2010 Appendix 3: Extant publications from the library of Agrippino Manteo Appendix 4: Paladins of France scripts in the handwriting of Agrippino Manteo Appendix 5: Agrippino Manteo's summaries of plays in the Paladins of France cycle Appendix 6: Select Characters from the Paladins of France Cycle Appendix 7: Manteo family genealogy Works Cited Index
List of figures Acknowledgments Foreword by Alessandro Napoli Preface Introduction Part One The Sicilian Puppet Theater of Agrippino Manteo and Family Part Two Select Plays from the Paladins of France Cycle Conclusion Appendix 1: Marionettes owned by the Manteo family in the 1980s Appendix 2: Manteo marionettes donated to the Italian American Museum in 2010 Appendix 3: Extant publications from the library of Agrippino Manteo Appendix 4: Paladins of France scripts in the handwriting of Agrippino Manteo Appendix 5: Agrippino Manteo's summaries of plays in the Paladins of France cycle Appendix 6: Select Characters from the Paladins of France Cycle Appendix 7: Manteo family genealogy Works Cited Index
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