The Nancy Staub Publications Award-winning ebook The Sicilian Puppet Theater of Agrippino Manteo (1884-1947): The Paladins of France in America by Jo Ann Cavallo has simply been launched in paperback version.
This research reconstructs the historical past of the Manteo household marionette theater in New York Metropolis, offers translations of eight chosen performs and 270 extant summaries, and presents comparative analyses uncovering how Agrippino Manteo’s scripts creatively adapt Italian Renaissance chivalric poems and nineteenth-century prose compilations.
Reward
We’re lucky certainly that the Manteo household has preserved written scripts of Italian puppet theater in America and that Jo Ann Cavallo is ready to present a context within the historical past of literature for what was carried out each day for the Italian group on the streets of New York within the Twenties and Thirties.
—Professor Charles Ross, Purdue College, USA
This work might be of curiosity to college students of Sicilian tradition and of the artwork of puppetry, in addition to to students of narratology, intrigued by the attraction of storytelling as such.
—Arthuriana
In regards to the Writer
Jo Ann Cavallo (Ph.D., Yale, 1987), Professor of Italian at Columbia College, has revealed broadly on Italian chivalric epic, together with The World past Europe within the Romance Epics of Boiardo and Ariosto and The Romance Epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso: From Public Responsibility to Personal Pleasure.
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