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"Scrivere a gusti del popolo". L'Arte Nuevo di Lope de Vega nell'Italia del Seicento

2007

The influence of Spanish Theater from the siglo de oro on Italian Seventeenth-century opera is stil an open question. Librettists (for example, G. F. Busenello in his Didone of 1641) speak of "Spanish customs" to claim exemption from Aristotelian rules; furthermore, several music dramas that were well-known thoughout Italy both in print and on stage derive - more or less directly - from Spanish theatrical texts. A particular aspect of the whole question can be seen in the popularity in Italy of Lope de Vega's Arte nuevo de hacer comedias en este tiempo, a discourse on poetic written between 1604 and 1608 for the Academia de Madrid which was published in Madrid in 1609 and only two years lat…