Note 14 — NOTE ON SYMBOLS
Reading edition
Ferrari, 50; D’Ancona, ii. 1, give examples of these at Ferrara and elsewhere. The Favola d’Orfeo, originally produced about 1471, seems to have been recast as Orphei tragedia for Ferrara in 1486. It had five acts, Pastorale, Ninfale, Eroico, Negromantico, Baccanale; in the fourth, the way to hell and hell itself were shown—‘duplici actu haec scena utitur’.