Note 537 — Chapter IV
Reading edition
Ginguéné,vi. 171. An earlier writer on the Italian theatre is in raptures with this play. The Greeks, Latins, and moderns have never made, and perhaps never will make, so perfect a comedy as the Calandra. It is, in my opinion, the model of good comedy. Riccoboni, Hist. du Théátre Italien, i. 148. This is much to say, and shows an odd taste, for the Calandra neither displays character nor excites interest.