Note 31 — Part II. THE ITALIAN COMMEDIA DELL' ARTE OR IMPROMPTU COMEDY.
John Addington Symonds translation
A curious passage in the Life of Don Pietro di Toledo (Arch. Stor., vol. ix. p. 23) shows what a startling impression these Dionysiac revels made upon a Spanish Viceroy in the early seventeenth century. Pontano's Latin poems are full of matter bearing on the vitality of antique rustic habits in the neighbourhood of Naples.