INDEX
Reading edition
A
Achæus, i. 9
Acrobates, i. 10
Actresses, in ancient Rome, i. 14;
in fourth and fifth centuries, 22;
in sixteenth century, 29;
morals of, 180;
admitted to the Italian stage, ii. 77;
admitted to the French stage, 79;
dancing essential to, 80;
in Beolco’s plays, 80;
in the Renaissance, 133
Adami, Patricia, plays soubrette parts, i. 44;
in Paris, 162;
marries Agostino Lolli, 163
Adamo, L’, described, i. 254
Adelphi Theatre, Legrand plays at, i. 230
Æschylus, i. 9; ii. 53
Aigremont, Mlle d’, cantatrice, ii. 73
Alborghetti, pantaloon, i. 49
Alvarotto, Marco, Beolco’s letter to, i. 303;
plays Menego, ii. 101
Amante Romanesque, L’, scene from, ii. 152
Amants Magnifiques, Les, Louis XIV. plays in, ii. 83
Amelia, Martino d’, i. 25; ii. 256
Amour des Trois Oranges, L’, produced, i. 100
Anconitana, La, quotations from, i. 236; ii. 132
Andreini, Francesco, in Scala’s company, i. 37;
his career, 149;
as author, 150;
his preface to Scala’s collection, 240
Andreini, Giovanni-Battista, heads the Uniti Company, i. 89;
his birth, 149;
plays Lelio, 150;
biographical note of, 254;
his L’Adamo, 254;
his Teatro Celeste, 255;
other works by, 256
Andreini, Isabella, i. 38;
her marriage, 149;
plays Isabella, 162;
in France, 239;
her distinguished career, ii. 135
Anfiparnasso, L’, ii. 57
Angeleri, Giuseppe, plays Brighella, ii. 167
Apothecary, the, described, ii. 273
Apuleius quoted, i. 60
Argens, Marquis d’, on morals of actresses, i. 180
Argieri plays Pulcinella, i. 113
Aristophanes, i. 10
Arlecchino. See Harlequin
Arlequine, i. 173
Arlequin Esprit Follet, i. 95
Arlequino Proteo, i. 164
Arlequin Poli par l’Amour quoted, ii. 151
Artémire Délivrée quoted, i. 97
Arzigogolo, scene of, ii. 97
Asinaria contrasted with Beolco’s La Vaccaria, ii. 128
Atella, theatre at, i. 11
Atellanæ, comedies so called, i. 11;
licentious, 12;
the source of the Commedia dell’ Arte, 32, 107
Augustus I. of Poland and Angelo Constantini, ii. 192 et seq.
Aulularia quoted, ii. 18
Aulus Gellius on ancient masks, i. 16
Aurelia, i. 41;
described, ii. 139;
played by B. Bianchi, 140
Aurelio. See B. Ranieri
Avocat Pour et Contre, L’, scene from, ii. 221
B
Babron, Mlle, cantatrice, ii. 73
Bacelli, La, cantatrice, ii. 70
Bagnacavallo, Lidia di, i. 35;
and A. Valerini, ii. 134
Baletti, Elena-Virginia, plays Flaminia, i. 149;
in The Wiles of Isabella, 242;
marries L. Riccoboni, 265;
her career, ii. 165
Baletti, Giuseppe, goes to France, i. 268;
married to La Dumalgé, ii. 86
Baletti, Luigi, plays Lelio, i. 50;
at the Théâtre-Italien, 272;
accidentally shot, 273
Ballerina, The, chapter on, ii. 75;
Gertrude Boon, Violente and Mlle Hamoche, 83;
La Camargo, 84;
La Dumalgé, 86
Ballets, scenario of La Verità, ii. 81;
Louis XIV. in, 82
Balli, Celesi, plays Pulcinella, i. 129
Banqueroutier, Le, scene from, i. 166
Barbançois plays Pulcinella, i. 113, 153
Barbera, La, success of, ii. 56
Barbieri, Niccolo, quoted, i. 152;
on Zeccha, 192;
on boys playing feminine rôles, ii. 78;
on Isabella Andreini, 136;
plays, 173;
his Supplica, 173 et seq.
Baron, the, of Sicilian origin, i. 28;
a variant of Pantaloon, ii. 50
Bartolazzi, Margarita, i. 41;
in La Finta Pazza, ii. 157
Bastolet, Mlle, cantatrice, ii. 72
Bathyllus, mime of the first century, i. 19
Beaumarchais and Mlle Mesnard, ii. 70
Begot, Anne, wife of Tabarin, i. 162
Belloni plays Pierrot, i. 212
Beltrame, of Milanese origin, i. 29;
costume of, ii. 172;
played by Barbieri, 173
Benozzi, Giovanna-Rosa, plays Silvia, i. 49;
married to G. Baletti, 268;
presents her son to the public, 272;
her career, ii. 150;
in Arlequin Poli, etc., 151;
in L’Amante Romanesque, 152;
in The Portrait, 154;
her marriage, 155
Beolco, Angelo (Ruzzante), opens a career to Italian dialects, i. 26;
his La Rhodiana quoted, 99;
Il Sitonno created by, 134;
names of his soubrettes, 161;
La Vaccaria quoted, 235;
L’Anconitana quoted, 236;
creates the modern theatre, 254;
dialogue of, 276;
chapter on, 279;
compared with his predecessors, 280;
his epitaph, 281;
his stage companions, 282;
his use of dialects, 283;
his realism, 286;
his letters, 287;
his times, 288;
dialogues quoted, 289 et seq.;
his letter to Alvarotto, 303;
his methods, 308;
his works, 309;
characters introduced by, 311;
dialogue quoted, ii. 14;
women in his plays, 80;
dialogue of, 102;
La Fiorina quoted, 121;
La Piovana quoted, 163;
Bergerac, Cyrano de, boastfulness of, i. 145;
quoted, 146
Berneri, Giuseppe, poem by, on Meo Patacca, i. 129;
Marco Pepe, 132
Bertinazzi, Carlo, plays Harlequin, i. 49;
succeeds Thomassin, 88;
his début, 90;
his talents, 91;
his death, 93;
Collé’s criticism of, 94;
Grimm’s criticism of, 95
Bertoldino, The Life of, i. 183 et seq.;
on the stage, 191
Bertoldo, The Life of, i. 183 et seq.;
on the stage, 191
Bianchi, Brigida (Aurelia), i. 43, 44, 153;
goes to France, 257;
writes L’Inganno Fortunato, ii. 140
Bianchi, Giuseppe, plays Spezzafer, i. 153; ii. 140
Bianchi, Orsola, ii. 140
Biancolelli, Catarina, plays Columbine, i. 44, 67, 163;
her début, 164;
quotations from her rôles, 165 et seq.;
in Paris, 173
Biancolelli, Françoise-Marie-Apolline, plays Isabelle, i. 67;
at the Comédie Italienne, ii. 141;
her marriage with M. de Turgis, 147;
pensioned, 150
Biancolelli, Giuseppe-Domenico (Domenico), Gherardi on, i. 77;
defect in his voice, 84;
melancholy character of, 91;
father of Catarina, 163;
Fournier on, 204;
married to Orsola Corteze, ii. 141
Biancolelli, Pierre-François, plays under name of Dominique, i. 68;
plays Trivelino, 98
Biancolelli, Teresa, plays Columbine, i. 49, 163
Biancolelli, Teresa (the younger), i. 163
Bibbiena, Cardinal of, his La Calandra, i. 280
Bigottini plays Harlequin, i. 95
Biologues, i. 90
Birrichino, rôle described, i. 134 et seq.
Biscegliese, Il, of Neapolitan origin, i. 28;
described by Musset, ii. 38;
ejaculations of, 39;
costume of, 40;
in Le Jettaturi, 40
Bissoni, Giovanni, plays Scapino, i. 49;
career of, ii. 182
Bobèche, ii. 118
Boon, Gertrude, ballerina, ii. 83
Borromeo, Cardinal Charles, i. 238;
scenarii bearing his autograph, ii. 137
Bos, Abbé du, quoted, i. 13
Bosse, Abraham, plays Matamoros, i. 152
Boxwell, the English clown, i. 232
Brazier quoted, i. 196
Brighella, origin of, i. 27;
Bergamese, 28, 45;
contrasted with Harlequin, 64;
in Venice, ii. 17;
described, 161;
descended from Epidicus, 163;
costume of, 166;
played by Angeleri and Zanoni, 167;
witticisms of, 167
Brocantin, variant of Pantaloon, ii. 26
Broken Contracts, The, scenario of, ii. 287
Brosses, Président de, on improvisation, i. 32;
on Meo Patacca, 131;
on La Serva Padrona, ii. 54;
on Italian opera, 55;
on a performance at Verona, 61, 85
Bucco, i. 107;
character of, 108
Buffoon, etymology of, i. 19
Burattino, gives his name to marionettes, i. 21;
in Scala’s scenarii, 29;
and Pedrolino, 202;
in The Wiles of Isabella, 242 et seq.;
character described, ii. 252;
and Pantaloon, 253
Burchiella, Lucio, plays the Doctor, ii. 31, 37
C
Cabotino, ii. 238
Cacasenno, Life of, i. 184 et seq.;
on the stage, 191
Calandra, La, performed at Lyons, i. 33;
written, 286;
quoted, ii. 256
Calcese, Andrea, plays Pulcinella, i. 112
Callot, his Les Petits Danseurs, i. 27, 63;
engravings of Captains, 148;
of Scaramouche, ii. 207;
his engravings, 231, 235
Camargo, La, Ballerina, ii. 84
Camerani plays Scapino, ii. 183
Camille. See Antonia Veronese
Cantatrice, The, i. 28;
Elizabeth Danneret, 45;
chapter on, ii. 52;
some early singers, 56;
rôle of, 59;
Mlle Chantilly, 62;
Deamicis, 66;
La Piccinelli, 67;
Mlle Collet, 69;
La Colomba, 69;
Bacelli, Zanarini, Mesnard and Ruette, 70;
others, 72 and 73
Captain, The, i. 26;
of Neapolitan origin, 28;
Spavento, 29;
Cocodrillo, 35, 45;
chapter on, 137;
The Braggart Captain quoted, 138;
his bearing, 142;
Matamoros, 143;
European success of the type, 147;
costumes of, 147;
names of, 148;
Spavento, 149;
Rodomonte, 150;
Rinoceronte, 152;
Spezzafer, 152;
costume of, in the eighteenth century, 155;
Giangurgolo, 155;
Il Vappo, 156;
Rogantino, 157
Carlin. See Carlo Bertinazzi
Carnival masks, ii. 275 et seq.
Carpentier, plays Gillies, i. 213;
his drunkenness, 215;
his last appearance, 216
Casnar, i. 27, 107;
the ancient Pantaloon, ii. 10
Casperle supplants Hanswurst, i. 128
Cassandre aux Indes quoted, i. 275
Cassandrino, of Roman origin, i. 28;
described, ii. 46
Cassandro, origin of, i. 27;
in dialogue with Paillasse, 197;
with Pierrot, 209;
described, ii. 42;
character created and developed, 45
Castil-Blaze quoted, ii. 54
Cavé, plays Scaramouche, ii. 227;
his duel, 228
Cavicchio, in Scala’s scenarii, i. 29;
described, ii. 254
Cecchini, Pietro-Maria, on comedy, ii. 77;
plays Fritellino, 236
Celega in La Vaccaria, ii. 123
Centaura, La, described, i. 40
Champfleury, scenarii by, i. 125;
on Deburau, 226;
on the English Clown, 232
Chantilly, Mlle de. See Madame Favart
Chapelle, famous Cassandro, ii. 45;
anecdotes of, 46
Charlatans, in Athens and Sparta, i. 10;
Istomachus, 18;
Mondor, 41; ii. 238;
in Italy and France, 239;
Martin’s description of, 240
Chicanoux described, ii. 268
Ciavarelli, Alessandro, plays Scapino, ii. 183
Cicero, his friendship for Roscius, i. 18;
quoted, 60
Cid, Le, i. 145
Clizia, La, played in Rome, i. 280
Cinedologues, i. 80
Cinthio, in dialogue with Pierrot, i. 210;
played by M. A. Romagnesi, 259;
costume of, 260;
in Colombine Avocat, 260;
and Mezzetin, ii. 190
Clairon, Hippolyte, ii. 80;
on Volange’s failure, 118
Cleon, Roman mime, i. 18
Clown, the English version of Pierrot, i. 231;
descendant of the Clowns of Shakespeare, 233;
played by Giuseppe Grimaldi, 233;
played by Joe Grimaldi, 234
Cocodrillo, Captain, played by Fornaris, i. 150
Colalto plays Pantaloon, ii. 29;
his death, 30
Collé, his criticism of Bertinazzi, i. 94;
his criticism of Deshayes, 178;
of the sisters Veronese, ii. 177
Collet, Mlle, cantatrice, ii. 69
Colomba, La, her début, ii. 69
Colombine Avocat, dialogue from, i. 260
Columbine, i. 41;
Catarina Biancolelli, 44;
Teresa Biancolelli, 49;
in L’Empereur dans la Lune, 82 et seq.;
chapter on, 159;
a soubrette, 162;
Catarina Biancolelli, 163;
speeches of, 164 et seq.;
in Le Banqueroutier, 166;
in L’Homme à Bonnes Fortunes, 169;
and Harlequin, 171;
costume of, 173;
Violette, 174;
Coraline, 175;
in scene from Gherardi, ii. 26;
the daughter of Cassandro, 44;
in dialogue with Isabella, 147
Comédie-Française makes war upon the forain theatres, i. 46
Comédie-Italienne, the “New” and the “Old,” i. 50;
amalgamated with the Opéra-Comique, 52;
styled “Théâtre des Italiens,” 53;
Bertoldo at, 192
Comedy, ancient, i. 11 et seq.
Comædiæ Planipediæ, i. 12
Commedia dell’ Arte, developed in Italy, i. 26;
continuation of the Atellanæ, 28, 32;
improvisation in, 30;
Riccoboni’s hostility to, 267;
Gozzi and Goldoni on, ii. 281
Commedia Sostenuta, i. 26
Commissary, the, ii. 267
Confidenti Troupe, i. 34, 37, 150
Constantini, Angelo, plays Mezzetino, i. 44;
his career, ii. 185;
succeeds Domenico, 186;
anecdote of, 187;
and Augustus I. of Poland, 192;
his reappearance, 193;
his death, 194
Constantini, Anna, plays Isabelle, ii. 157
Constantini, Antonio, plays Harlequin, i. 89
Constantini, Constantino, plays Gradelino, i. 45;
career of, ii. 184
Constantini, Giovanni-Battista, plays Ottavio, i. 45;
in Paris, 262;
his services to France, 263;
his character and death, 264
Coraline. See Anna Veronese
Corneille, i. 145
Cornelio, Aloysio, patron of Beolco, i. 281 et seq.
Corteze, Orsola, plays Eularia, i. 44;
wife of Domenico, 67;
her début, ii. 140
Corypheus created by Thespis, i. 9
Cotta Pietro, Riccoboni on, i. 266;
endeavours to uplift comedy, 267
Coviello, i. 27;
of Calabrese origin, 28;
chapter on, ii. 231;
in Callot’s engravings, 233;
played by Salvator Rosa, 234;
Fritellino, 235;
Tabarino, 237;
Burattino, 252;
Cavicchio, 254;
Ficcheto, 255
Crispin, costume of, i. 152;
described, ii. 229
Croce, Giulio Cesare (Della Lira), i. 183;
his poem, 185
D
Dancing. See Ballerina
Danneret, Elizabeth, cantatrice, i. 45; ii. 59;
in Le Départ des Comédiens, 60
Darbés, plays Pantaloon, ii. 30;
Gozzi’s praise of, 282
Deamicis, cantatrice, ii. 66
Deburau, Jean-Baptiste, i. 53;
contrasted with Père Rousseau, 196;
transforms character of Pierrot, 219;
Théophile Gautier on, 220;
Janin’s biography of, 221;
his agreement with Bertrand, 222;
plays in which performed, 223;
his last appearance, 226;
his death, 227;
and George Sand, 228;
his character, 229;
his son, 230
Deburau the younger succeeds his father, i. 229
Delaulne, Florentin, his Arlequiniana, i. 69
Della Lira. See Croce
Départ des Comédiens, Le, quoted, ii. 60
Deshayes, at the Comédie-Italienne, i. 175;
Collé’s criticism of, 178
Doctor, the (Il Dottore), i. 26;
of Bolognese origin, 28;
in Scala’s scenarii, 29, 48;
Materazzi, 49;
in L’Empereur dans la Lune, 80; and ii. 35;
and Pedrolino, 201;
in Pantalone Spezier, ii. 21;
described, 31;
Riccoboni on, 32;
his mask, 33;
players of, 37;
in dialogue with Isabelle, 144;
and Fenocchio, 171;
and Scaramouche, 218
Donat, Jean, plays zanies, i. 44
Domenico. See Giuseppe-Domenico Biancolelli
Double Inconstance, La, i. 94
Dumalgé, Mlle, Ballerina, ii. 86
E
Ely plays Polichinelle, i. 125
Empereur dans la Lune, L’, i. 79; ii. 35
Épreuves, Les, sketched, i. 223
Esopus, Roman mime, i. 18
Ethologues, i. 10
Etoile quoted, i. 35 et seq.
Etruscans, i. 11
F
Fabioni plays Pulcinella, i. 119
Facanappa described, ii. 49
Favart, marries Mlle Chantilly, ii. 62;
on La Piccinelli, 67;
on La Dumalgé, 86;
on Camille, 158 et seq.
Favart, Madame (Mlle Chantilly), her début, ii. 62;
Maréchal de Saxe in love with, 63;
her talent, 64;
her death, 65;
her dancing, 80
Fedeli Troupe, i. 39
Fenocchio, variant of Brighella, ii. 168;
and Harlequin, 169
Fescennia, the verses of, ii. 231;
actors of, 232
Festin de Pierre, Le, i. 205
Ficcheto described, ii. 255
Finta Pazza, La, title of, i. 42;
performed in Paris, 57
Fiorello, Silvio, introduced Pulcinella, i. 112
Fiorilli, Agostino, plays Tartaglia, ii. 261;
Gozzi’s praise of, 281, 290
Fiorina, La, quoted, ii. 121
Fiorinetta in La Vaccaria, ii. 121
Fiurelli, Tiberio, Scaramouche, i. 41, 43, 44;
in interlude, ii. 58;
plays Scaramouche, 208;
his marriage, 210;
his fame, 211;
and Louis XIV., 212;
his second marriage, 214;
in scenario from Gherardi, 215
Flautino, played by Giovanni Gherardi, ii. 184
Flavio, Flaminio Scala, i. 29;
in La Vaccaria, 235; and ii. 125;
in The Wiles of Isabella, i. 242
Fontaine de Sapience, La, quoted, ii. 59
Fornaris, Fabrizio di, in Confidenti Troupe, i. 37;
plays Cocodrillo, 150
Fourberies de Scapin, Les, i. 188
Fournier, Édouard, on Pierrot, i. 204 et seq.
Fracassano, Michelangelo da, plays Pulcinella, i. 44, 113
Fracasse, Le Capitaine, i. 148
Franca-Trippa, type created, i. 37;
a zanni, ii. 236
Franceschina, played by Silvia Roncagli, i. 37, 162;
in The Wiles of Isabella, 242;
wife of Burattino, ii. 253
Fritellino, in Scala’s scenarii, i. 29;
described, ii. 235;
played by Cecchini, 236
Funambules, Théâtre des, i. 125;
Deburau at, 218;
Deburau’s agreement, 222
Funambuli, i. 10;
in Rome, 15
G
Gabrielli, Giulia, i. 41;
cantatrice, ii. 57
Galimafré, ii. 118
Ganassa, Juan, establishes Italian comedy in Paris, i. 34;
his company, 192
Garrick, David, on Bertinazzi’s talent, i. 191
Garzon, Thomas, on Isabella Andreini, ii. 135
Gaultier-Garguille, created, i. 41;
on boastfulness, 146;
etymology of, ii. 50;
described, 51
Gautier, Théophile, on pantomime, i. 54;
on Deburau, 220
Gavarini Girolamo, plays Captain Rinoceronte, i. 152
Gelosi Troupe, i. 35;
at Hôtel de Bourbon, 36;
its motto, 37;
players in, 238
Genest martyred, i. 19, 255
Gennari, his eulogium of Beolco, i. 280 f.n.
Gentilhomme Gascon, Le, played before Henry IV., i. 198
Geoffrin, Julien, plays Jodelet, ii. 204
Gherardi, Evaristo, on improvisation, i. 39;
plays Harlequin, 45;
his collection of scenarii, 52;
his account of his first appearance, 76;
his death, 78;
scene by, ii. 26;
in Le Départ des Comédiens, 60;
monologue of Isabella, 142;
on Fiurelli, 211
Gherardi, Giovanni, plays Flautino, i. 44;
father of Evaristo G., 76;
career of, ii. 184
Gianduja, originated in Turin, i. 28;
identical with Girolamo, ii. 108;
described, 110;
in Turin, 112
Gian Farina, i. 193
Giangurgolo, of Calabrese origin, i. 28;
one of the captains, 155 et seq.
Giaratone Giuseppe, plays Pierrot, i. 44, 207;
biographical note of, 211
Giglio. See Gilles
Gilles, variant of Pierrot, i. 213;
played by Carpentier, 213
Girolamo, identical with Gianduja, ii. 108;
in Milan, 109
Goldoni, Carlo, hostile to Commedia dell’ Arte, i. 99;
writes play for Darbés, ii. 30;
his methods, 290;
his quarrel with Gozzi, 292
Golinetti plays Harlequin, i. 95
Gozzi, Carlo, his relations with Sacchi, i. 100;
and the Commedia dell’ Arte, ii. 281;
his scenarii, 283;
and Signora Ricci, 284;
on improvisation, 284 et seq.;
his quarrel with Goldoni, 292
Gradelino played by Constantino Constantini, i. 44; ii. 184
Grattelard, described, ii. 200;
in The Three Hunchbacks, 201;
the rival of Tabarin, 242
Grimaldi, Giuseppe, Clown, i. 233
Grimaldi, Joe, Clown, i. 233
Grimm, quoted, i. 47;
on dismissal of Italian players, 53;
on Bigottini’s Harlequin, 95;
on Colalto, ii. 29;
on Mlle Chantilly, 64, 65;
on La Colomba, 69;
on Mme Ruette, 70;
on Jeannot, 115
Gringalet, ii. 118
Gros Guillaume, created, i. 41;
played by Guérin, 198;
costume of, 199
Guaiassa, La, the Neapolitan soubrette, i. 179
Guapo, Il, i. 133 et seq.
Guérin, Robert, plays Gros Guillaume, i. 198
Guéru, Hugues, creates Gaultier Garguille, ii. 50
Guillot-Gorju, created, i. 41;
described, ii. 52
H
Halle, Adam de la, i. 121
Hamoche plays Pierrot, i. 206, 212
Hanswurst, the German Polichinelle, i. 115;
Magnin on, 127;
played by Prehauser, 128
Harlay, Achille de, i. 62
Harlequin, descended from phallophores, i. 11, 27;
Bergamese origin of, 28, 41;
played by Domenico, 44;
by Gherardi, 45, 76;
by Thomassin, 49, 84;
by Carlo Bertinazzi, 49;
described, 54;
chapter on, 57 et seq.;
possible ancestor of, 59;
costume of, 60;
etymology of name, 62;
character transformed by Domenico, 65;
in L’Empereur dans la Lune, 79;
in plays by Marivaux, 85;
played by Antonio Constantini, 89;
by Bertinazzi, 90;
by Bigottini, 95;
by Golinetti, 95;
in marionettes, 95;
actors who played, 96;
Trivelino, 96;
in Artémire, 97;
Truffaldino, 98;
in Harlequin Roi Par Hasard, 153;
and Spezzafer, 154;
in Arlequino Proteo, 164;
and Columbine, 171;
and Violette, 174;
and Pedrolino, 201, 202;
in Les Épreuves, 224;
in The Wiles of Isabella, 242;
in Colombine Avocat, 260;
in Cassandre aux Indes, 275;
Pantaloon’s servant, ii. 19;
in Pantalone Spezier, 21;
in Le Départ des Comédiens, 60;
in Arlequin Poli par l’Amour, 151;
and Fenocchio, 169;
and Mezzetin, 189;
and Scaramouche, 216;
in L’Avocat Pour et Contre, 221;
Haudouin, Bertrand, plays Guillot-Gorju, ii. 52
Henri III. summons Gelosi Troupe to France, i. 35
Henri IV., anecdote of, i. 198
Herodotus on marionettes, i. 20
Histrion, etymology of, i. 17
Homme à Bonnes Fortunes, L’, scene from, i. 169
I
Illusion Comique, L’, i. 145
Inganno Fortunato, L’, i. 84;
announcement of, ii. 61;
by Brigida Bianchi, 140
Interludes, origin and development of, ii. 54;
filled by Fiurelli, 58
Isabelle, played by Isabella Andreini, i. 37, 162;
in L’Empereur dans la Lune, 83;
and Columbine, 165;
in Le Banqueroutier, 167;
in L’Homme à Bonnes Fortunes, 169;
and Pedrolino, 202;
in Les Épreuves, 223;
in The Wiles of Isabella, 242;
in Cassandre aux Indes, 275;
in scene from Gherardi, ii. 27;
chapter on, 121;
Isabella Andreini, 135;
some leading ladies, 138;
played by Brigida Bianchi, 139;
by Françoise Biancolelli, 141;
monologue of, 142;
in dialogue with the Doctor, 144;
with Columbine, 147;
Silvia, 150;
Flaminia, 156;
Lucile, 157;
some other variants, 159;
and Mezzetin, 188
Istomachus, a charlatan, i. 18
Italien Marié à Paris, L’, success of, i. 268
J
Janin, Jules, his biography of Deburau quoted, i. 220
Jan-Klaassen, the Dutch Polichinelle, i. 127
Jeanne of Naples, her history dramatised, i. 24
Jeannot, described, ii. 114;
played by Volange, 116
Jocrisse, ii. 118
Jodelet, created, i. 41;
described, ii. 209
K
Karagheus, the Eastern Polichinelle, i. 115
L
Lambert, Mlle, cantatrice, ii. 72
Laurent plays Leandro, i. 227
Leandro, played by C. V. Romagnesi, i. 45, 264;
in Les Épreuves, 223;
character transformed, 273;
in Cassandre aux Indes, 275;
played by Laurent, 277;
and Cassandro, ii. 44
Legrand, Henri, plays Turlupin, ii. 198
Legrand, Paul, plays Pierrot, i. 230
Legrand, Louis, plays Turlupin, ii. 200
Lelio, played by Luigi Riccoboni, i. 49, 264;
in L’Inganno Fortunato, 84;
in Le Prince Travesti, 85;
chapter on, 235;
Flavio, 235;
played by G. B. Andreini, 254;
Orazio, 257;
Cinthio, 259;
Ottavio, 262;
played by L. Riccoboni, 264;
played by Cotta, 266;
in L’Italien Marié à Paris, 267;
played by G. A. Romagnesi, 268;
played by F. Riccoboni, 271;
played by A. L. Baletti, 272;
Leandro, 273
Lisle, Mlle de, cantatrice, ii. 72
Livius Andronicus, i. 13
Locatelli, Domenico, plays Trivelino, i. 43, 44, 66, 97;
play by, 98
Locatelli, Gabriella, i. 41; ii. 57
Lolli, Angelo Agostino Constantino, plays the Doctor, i. 44;
marries Patricia Adami, 163;
his Doctor, ii. 37
Lombardi, Bernardino, i. 35;
plays Doctor, ii. 37
Loret, “The Historic Muse of,” quoted, i. 43
Louis XIII. summons Italian troupe to France, i. 41
Louis XIV., responsible for French opera, ii. 58;
dances in ballets, 82
Lucian, quoted, i. 14;
on masks, 17;
on dancing, ii. 76
Lysiodes, i. 10
M
Macchiavelli, Niccolo, as dramatic author, i. 280;
friend of La Barbera, ii. 56
Maccus, i. 26, 107;
character of, 108
Maddalena Lasciva e Penitente, La, characters in, ii. 138
Magnin, Charles, on pantomime in Rome, i. 13, 14;
on marionettes in Rome, 19;
on attitude of Church towards histrions, 22;
on itinerant troupes, 36, 38;
on plebeian drama, 53;
on Pulcinella, 120;
on Polichinelle, 121, 126;
on Punch, 127;
on ancient singers, ii. 53;
on dancing, 76;
on funeral of Isabella Andreini, 136
Maillard, Mlle, Cantatrice, ii. 72
Malloni, Maria, Celia, i. 35;
her talent, ii. 134
Mandragora, La, i. 280; ii. 81
Manducus, i. 19
Manente, Gian, i. 25; ii. 256
Marco-Pepe, of Roman origin, i. 28;
affinity with Polichinelle, 128;
costume of, 131;
rôle of, described, 132
Marinette, i. 44
Marionettes, in antiquity, i. 19;
etymology of, 20;
varieties of, 21;
gypsies and, 25
Marivaux writes plays for Thomassin, i. 85
Marmontel on Harlequin, i. 59, 64
Mary of Médicis summons Fedeli Troupe to Paris, i. 39
Masks, in Rome, i. 15;
worn by Greek mimes, 17;
worn by types of the Italian comedy, 27;
some carnival masks, ii. 275 et seq.
Matamore. See Matamoros
Matamoros, Captain, played by Fiorello, i. 112;
his Spanish origin, 143;
Scarron’s play on, 147;
played by Bosses, 152
Matterazzi plays Doctor, i. 49; ii. 27
Mazarin, Cardinal, summons Italian comedians to Paris, i. 41, 51;
summons Domenico, 66
Mazurier plays Polichinelle, i. 124
Meneghino, of Milanese origin, i. 28;
described, ii. 101;
descended from Menego, 102;
akin to Stenterello, 106
Menego, dialogue of, ii. 102
Meo-Patacca, of Roman origin, i. 28;
variant of Polichinelle, 128;
peculiarity of speech of, 129;
in Theatre of Palla Corda, 130;
costume of, 131
Mercey, Frédéric, on Polichinelle, i. 115;
on Meo-Patacca, 129;
on the Captain, 143;
on Pantaloon, ii. 18;
on the Italian masks, 24;
on the Doctor, 31;
on Stenterello, 89, 94;
on Meneghino, 106
Metrobius, i. 18
Mézières, Marie Laboras de, her career, i. 156
Mezzetino, in Scala’s scenarii, i. 29, 41;
played by A. Constantini, 44;
described, ii. 185;
and Isabelle, 188;
and Harlequin, 189;
and Cinthio, 190;
and Pasquariello, 223
Mimes, in Rome, i. 14;
their masks, 15;
their status, 17
Molière, creates Pierrot, i. 205;
his Scapin, ii. 181;
plays with mask, 186;
his admiration of Fiurelli, 214;
inspired by the Italians, 215
Mondor, the charlatan, i. 41;
plays Captain Rodomonte, 150;
dialogue of, 151;
the associate of Tabarin, ii. 238 et seq.
Montaigne, on Italian comedy, i. 26;
on comedians, 193
Musset, Paul de, on the four Venetian masks, ii. 17;
on Il Biscegliese, 38, 40;
on Tartaglia, 262
Mystery plays, i. 24
N
Narcisino, the modern planipes, i. 28;
of Bolognese origin, 28;
character, ii. 195;
monologue of, 196
Natocelli plays Pagliaccio, i. 195
Nobili, Orazio, i. 35
Noces de Pierrot, Les, i. 226
Nodier, Charles, on Polichinelle, i. 125
Nonnus of Panopolis on pantomime, i. 14
Notary, the, described, ii. 265
O
Opera Buffa, created, ii. 54;
first performed, 55
Opéra-Comique, i. 47;
amalgamated with the Comédie-Italienne, 52;
composers at the, ii. 71
Orazio, in The Wiles of Isabella, i. 242;
played by Marco Romagnesi, 258;
character and costume, 258
Orléans, Duc d’ (The Regent), summons Italian players to Paris, i. 84
Orpheus performed in Paris, i. 51
Ottavio played by G. B. Constantini, i. 265
P
Pagliaccio, first appearance of, i. 192;
costume of, 193;
actors playing, 195
Palais Royal, Italian players at, i. 44, 84
Paillasse, i. 195;
played by Père Rousseau, 196
Palla-Corda, Theatre of, Meo-Patacca in, i. 130
Palladio, theatre by, at Vicenza, i. 33
Pangrazio il Biscegliese. See Il Biscegliese
Pantalone. See Pantaloon
Pantalone Spezier, ii. 21
Pantaloon, origin of, i. 27;
Venetian, 28;
in Scala’s scenarii, 29, 41;
played by Alborghetti, 49;
in The Wiles of Isabella, 242;
chapter on, ii. 9;
descended from Pappus, 10;
origin of his name, 17;
his character, 18;
and Harlequin, 19;
in Pantalone Spezier, 21;
Don Pantaleone, 23;
of every social condition, 24;
change in his costume, 25;
variants of name, 26;
Brocantin, 26;
played by Sticotti, 28;
by Colalto, 29;
by Darbés, 30;
the Doctor, 31;
Il Biscegliese, 38;
Cassandro, 42;
Cassandrino, 46;
Facanappa, 49;
the Baron, Gaultier-Garguille, 50;
Guillot-Gorju, 52
Pantomime in Rome, i. 13, 14
Pappus, i. 27, 107;
ancient Pantaloon, ii. 10
Parasolz, his drama on Jeanne of Naples, i. 24
Pasquariello, i. 44;
scene with Harlequin, 73;
in league with Columbine, 172;
and Scaramouche, ii. 212
Pasquino described, ii. 228
Passion, la, Confraternity of, close the Italian theatres in Paris, i. 35;
drive out the Confidenti, 38
Pedrolino, character of, i. 200;
lackey of Pantaloon, 201;
his appetite, 202;
his mischievousness, 203;
derived from the Italian peasant, 208;
in The Wiles of Isabella, 242
Peppe-Nappa, of Sicilian origin, i. 28;
variant of Pierrot, 216
Personæ, masks so called, i. 12
Phallophores, i. 10;
Sycionian, 59;
in Rome, 60
Piccinelli, La, her history, ii. 67
Pierò, i. 200. See Pierrot
Pierrette, i. 173
Pierrot, played by Giaratone, i. 44, 207;
described, 54;
in L’Homme à Bonnes Fortunes, 170;
chapter on, 183;
Pagliaccio, 192;
Gros-Guillaume, 198;
Pedrolino, 200;
derived from Pedrolino, 204;
created by Molière, 205;
played by Hamoche, 206;
derived from French peasant, 208;
in dialogue with Cassandre, 209;
and Cinthio, 210;
his character, 211;
players of, 212;
Gilles, 213;
Peppe Nappa, 216;
character transformed by Deburau, 219;
in Les Épreuves, 223;
played by Legrand, 230;
the English Clown, 231;
in L’Empereur dans la Lune, ii. 35;
and Cassandro, 43;
in dialogue with Isabelle, 44;
in L’Avocat Pour et Contre, 222
Pindar quoted, ii. 76
Planipes, i. 11, 60
Plautus, The Braggart Captain quoted, i. 138;
Mostellaria quoted, 159;
Pœnulus set to music, ii. 55
Pliny on actresses, ii. 77
Polichinelle. See Pulcinella
Chapter on, i. 103;
his character, 106;
Riccoboni on origin of, 110;
Sand on origin of, 111;
Riccoboni on, 114;
variations of his name, 115;
Polliciniella, 118;
Magnin on, 121;
his song, 122;
plays written round, 123;
competes with guillotine, 123;
Arnault on, 124;
Mazurier’s performance, 124;
Ély’s performance, 125;
Nodier on, 125;
Magnin on, 125;
Punch, 126;
Hanswurst, 127;
Meo-Patacca, 128;
Marco-Pepe, 132;
Il Guapo and Il Sitonno, 133;
Birrichino, 134
Polliciniella. See Polichinelle
Polidoro in comedy by Beolco, i. 276
Ponti, Diana, ii. 137
Porbus quoted, i. 34
Prehauser plays Hanswurst, i. 128; ii. 286
Prince Travesti, Le, i. 85
Pulcinella, lineal descendant of Maccus, i. 26;
Neapolitan, 28;
played by Fracassano, 45;
origin of, 107;
etymology of, 109;
introduced by Fiorello, 112.
See Polichinelle
Pulcinello, played by Coleson, i. 114. See Polichinelle
Pulliciniello. See Polichinelle
Punch, the English Polichinelle, i. 115, 126;
Magnin on, 127
Pylades, mime of the first century, i. 19
Q
Quinault befriends G. A. Romagnesi, i. 269
Quintus Roscius, earnings of, i. 18
R
Rabelais, quoted, i. 20;
his Sciomachie quoted, ii. 133;
Turlupin and, 198;
his Sciomachie, 257;
on Chicanoux, 268
Ranieri, Bartolomeo, plays Aurelio, i. 44;
his career, 261
Rauzzini, Giacopo, plays Scaramouche, i. 49; ii. 226
Réaux, Tallemant des, on Gros Guillaume, i. 198
Re Cervo, Il, sketched, ii. 263
Reynie, La, interdicts foreign players in Paris, i. 45
Rhinthonus, i. 12
Rhodiana, La, i. 99
Ricci, La, Gozzi’s mistress, i. 100; ii. 284
Riccoboni, Antonio, disregards royal summons to Paris, ii. 26
Riccoboni, Francesco, plays Lelio, i. 49, 271;
his career, 272
Riccoboni, Luigi, on F. Scala, i. 29;
on improvisation, 31;
director of the Regent’s Company, 49;
on zanni, 60;
on Harlequin, 63;
on image of Maccus, 110;
on Polichinelle, 114;
on the Captain, 147;
on G. B. Andreini, 256;
plays Lelio, 264;
his career, 265;
his History of the Italian Theatre, 266;
his mania for tragedy, 267;
his History criticised, 268;
on Ruzzante, 283;
on Pantaloon, ii. 24;
on the Doctor, 32
Richelieu, Cardinal de, summons Italian players to Paris, i. 51
Rinoceronte, Captain, described, i. 152
Rodomonte, Captain, described, i. 148;
played by Mondor, 150;
dialogue of, 151
Rogantino described, i. 157
Romagnesi, Carlo Virginio, plays Leandro, i. 45, 264
Romagnesi, Giovanni-Antonio, plays Lelio, i. 49;
early adventures of, 268;
his début at Strasburg, 270;
his success in Paris, 271
Romagnesi, Marco, plays Orazio, i. 44, 257
Romagnesi, Marco Antonio, plays Cinthio, i. 44, 259;
his career, 268;
plays the Doctor, ii. 37
Roncagli, Silvia, in Scala’s company, i. 37;
plays Franceschina, 162
Roquelaure, Maréchal de, anecdote of, i. 198
Rosa, Salvator, i. 28;
on Pagliaccio, 194;
plays Coviello, ii. 233
Rosaura, La, performed in Paris, i. 51; ii. 58
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, and the sisters Veronese, i. 176
Rousseau, Père, plays Paillasse, i. 196;
dialogue of, 197
Ruette, Madame, her talent, ii. 71
Ruine di Pompeia, Le, sketched, i. 118
Rusca, Margarita, plays Violette, i. 49, 174
Ruzzante, chapter on, i. 279. See Angelo Beolco
S
Sacchi, plays Truffaldino, i. 99;
his ruin, 100;
Gozzi’s praise of, ii. 281
St Victor, Paul de, on Tabarin, ii. 239, 241, 245
San Carlino, Theatre of, i. 115
Sand, George, and Deburau, i. 228
Sanniones, i. 60
San Samuele, Theatre of, i. 99;
Anna Veronese at, 176
Sant’ Angelo, Theatre of, i. 100
Saturæ, i. 12
Saxe, Maréchal de, opera in his camp, ii. 62;
in love with Mme Favart, 63
Sbirro, Il, described, ii. 272
Scala, Flaminio, his company, i. 29;
heads the Gelosi, 35;
actors engaged by, 37;
retires, 38;
Pedrolino in his scenarii, 200;
plays lovers, 238;
appearances of, in France, 239;
his collection of scenarii, 239;
his The Wiles of Isabella, 242;
engages Isabella Andreini, ii. 135
Scapino, of Milanese origin, i. 28;
played by Bissoni, 49;
chapter on, ii. 161;
Brighella, 161;
Fenocchio, 168;
Beltrame, 172;
his address to travellers, 179;
his character, 180;
played by Bissoni, 182;
played by Camerani, 183;
Flautino and Gradelino, 184;
Mezzetino, 185;
Narcisino, 195;
Turlupin, 198;
Grattelard, 200;
Jodelet and other variants of, 204
Scaramouche, i. 26;
of Neapolitan origin, 28;
played by Rauzzini, 49; and ii. 226;
chapter on, ii. 207;
and Pulcinella, 209;
in scenes from Gherardi’s collection, 215 et seq.;
Pasquariello, 219;
played by Cavé, 227;
Pasquino, 228;
Crispin, 229
Scardeon, Bernardino, on Beolco, i. 279, 281, 282
Scarron quoted, i. 147
Schœnobates, i. 10, 109
Scudéry, i. 145
Serva Padrona, La, ii. 54;
translated, 66
Shakespeare, the Clowns of, i. 233
Simodes, i. 19
Sitonno, II, rôle of, i. 133;
source of, in Ruzzante, 134
Smargiasso, described, i. 156
Soubrettes, i. 161;
Columbine, 163;
names of, 174;
Coraline, 175
Spanish Comedians in Paris, i. 43
Spavento, Captain, i. 148;
played by F. Andreini, 149;
and Pedrolino, 201;
in The Wiles of Isabella, 242
Spezzafer, Captain, his dress, i. 152;
played by G. Bianchi, 153;
dialogue of, 154
Spezza-Monti, Captain, described, i. 148
Spinetta, i. 45
Stenterello, of Florentine origin, i. 28;
comparable with English Clown, 231;
chapter on, ii. 89;
appearance of, 90;
etymology of, 92;
costume of, 92;
character of, 93;
an episode of, 94;
the Bolognese, 98;
monologue of, 99;
Meneghino, 101;
Gianduja and Girolamo, 108;
Zacometo, 113;
Jeannot, 114;
Jocrisse and other variants of, 118
Sticotti, Antonio, plays Pierrot, i. 212
Sticotti, Fabio, plays Pantaloon, ii. 29
Strozzi, Giulio, author, i. 42
Suppositi, I, produced, i. 280
Surprise de l’Amour, La, i. 85
Susarion, i. 9
Sycionian phallophores, i. 59
T
Tabarin, i. 41;
and Rodomonte, 151;
a charlatan, ii. 238;
St Victor on, 239;
the story of his death, 240;
rivals of, 242;
complete works of, 243;
quoted, 246;
prophetic almanac of, 251;
costume of, 253
Tabarini, his troupe in Vienna, i. 66; ii. 238
Tabarino described, ii. 237
Tabernariæ, i. 12
Taking of Delhi, The, Gianduja in, ii. 112
Tarentum famous for its actors, i. 18
Tartaglia, i. 27;
of Neapolitan origin, 28;
in Venice, ii. 17;
chapter on, 259;
costume of, 261;
frequent imprisonments of player of, 262;
in Il Re Cervo, 263;
the Notary, 265;
Il Sbirro, 272;
the Apothecary, 273
Terence on funambuli, i. 15
Terpander introduces the lyre, ii. 53
Thémire Délivrée criticised by Favart, ii. 158
Thespis, i. 9;
creates the corypheus, ii. 53
Thomas Aquinas quoted, i. 23
Thomassin. See Antonio Vicentini
Three Hunchbacks, The, ii. 201 et seq.;
Tartaglia in, 259
Titus Livy quoted, i. 11, 13
Togatæ, i. 12
Toneelgek, the Dutch Polichinelle, i. 115
Tortoretti, Giuseppe, plays Pasquariello, i. 44;
touring, 98;
his career, ii. 220
Triumph of Bacchus, The, Louis XIV. plays in, ii. 82
Trivelino, i. 41;
a variant of Harlequin, 96;
in Artémire, 97
Truffaldino, a variant of Harlequin, i. 98;
played by Sacchi, 99;
quotation from rôle of, 101;
in Venice, ii. 17
Tude, Hippolyte de la, on her début, i. 175
Turgis, M. de, his marriage with Françoise Biancolelli, ii. 147 et seq.
Turi, Nicolò, plays Pantaloon, i. 43
Turi, Virginio, plays lovers, i. 44, 259
Turlupin, played by H. Legrand, ii. 198
Tusculum, theatre at, i. 11
U
Uniti Troupe, i. 35, 39
V
Vaccaria, La, i. 99;
quotation from, 235;
outlined, ii. 121;
contrasted with Asinaria, 128
Valerini, Adriano, plays Aurelio, i. 35;
forms the Uniti Troupe, 39;
plays lovers, 238;
and Lidia di Bagnacavallo, ii. 134;
and Charles Borromeo, 137
Vappo, Il, one of the captains, i. 156
Varchi, Benedetto, on Beolco, i. 212
Verità, La, scenario of, ii. 81
Veronese, Anna, Coraline, i. 50;
a soubrette, 175;
Rousseau and, 176;
Collé’s criticism of, 177;
great vogue of, 178;
her dancing, ii. 80
Veronese, Carlo, plays Pantaloon, i. 176;
and Rousseau, 176;
overshadowed by his daughters, ii. 29
Veronese, Giacometta-Antonia, Camille, i. 50;
and Rousseau, 176;
Collé’s criticism of, 177;
in Sacchi’s company, 178;
her dancing, ii. 80;
her career, 157
Vicentini, Antonio (Thomassin), plays Harlequin, i. 49;
in L’Inganno Fortunato, 84;
plays for, by Marivaux, 85;
his agility, 88;
his death, 89;
Collé’s criticism of, 94;
married to Margarita Rusca, 174
Vicentini, Gioachino, plays Harlequin, i. 89
Vicenza, theatre at, i. 33
Vieux Cordelier quoted, i. 123
Violette, Margarita Rusca, i. 49;
a variant of Columbine, 174
Volange, plays Jeannot, ii. 116;
his failure, 117
Voltaire, on mystery plays, i. 24;
on La Camargo, ii. 84
W
Wiles of Isabella, The, Scala’s scenario of, i. 242
X
Xenophon quoted, ii. 175
Z
Zacometo, of Venetian origin, i. 28;
described, ii. 113
Zanarini, La, a cantatrice, ii. 70
Zanobio, a variant of Pantaloon, ii. 50
Zanoni, Atanasio, plays Brighella, ii. 167;
Gozzi’s praise of, 281
Zanotti, Andrea, plays Valerio and Ottavio, i. 44, 259
Zeccha, Nicolò, plays Bertoldino, i. 192
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