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The prologue declares in part: 'We're about to act theД¬omedy Menaechmi, charming, witty, elegant, none better: but alsoДefective in some places-the responsibility of time. AtДЇlorence, for a May 1488 Latin performance of Menaechmi before LorenzoДe' Medici, Angelo Poliziano wrote, at the director's request,ДЄ verse prologue intended to silence critics of Plautus's style and In addition to the 1502 performance there, Pope Julius II had the play acted in honor of his hostage Federico Gonzaga in 1511. Laetus presided over the staging of many Plautine comedies before hisДeath in 1498. Latin productions of the comedy played at Rome, where Pomponius In this era royal patronage could lift the reputation even of ancient Union of Ercole II with the daughter of Louis XII, Renata or Renee. (6)Д¬arrying on an Este family tradition, in 1528, Menaechmi celebrated the ('bellisima') and 1526 ('non molta bella'). The Venetian diarist Marin Sanudo mentions seeing the comedy in 1508 Second marriage of Alfonso d'Este, this time to Lucrezia Borgia. Of the Ferrara court was especially strong) (5) in 1491, at Cesena inДЎ492, at Milan in 1493, and at both Mantua and Rome in 1502 for the Performances of Menaechmi met with applause at Bologna (where influence Meanwhile, surely influenced by the Este precedent, vernacular Imitations would continue to do for generations following this play. Once again, if indirectly, PlautusД¬ontributed to Ferrara carnival festivities, as vernacular Plautine

(vernacular comedy based on Roman models), La Cassaria, acted at Ferrara Menaechmi thus figures prominently in the backgrounds that led toДЄriosto's writing the first widely recognized commedia erudita Who would himself later translate Menaechmi, though his version is lost. Its audience included, among theД®ntourage of Cardinal Ippolito d'Este, the boy Ludovico Ariosto, The Ferrara entertainment of 1486 also helped initiate a new How and why thisД¬omedy, among the twelve-or twenty in all-acquired such widespreadДЇavor during the sixteenth century has not as yet formed the subject of Have read the play, much less witnessed it, at school. The 'new' playsДid not become widely available until the first printed edition of theД¬omedies in 1472, though manuscript copies had circulated. Twelve hitherto unknown comedies by Plautus. Part of the manuscript discovery by Nicholas of Cusa, about 1428, of Theatrical venture-would have been its relative unfamiliarity, being Occasion-both celebrating the Este-Gonzaga union and inaugurating a (4) Certainly one reason for choosing Menaechmi for this Some ten thousand spectators saw Ferrara's first Menaechmi Theatre at that date.' (3) We may find it difficult to believe that Tuohy observes, 'suggests the preeminence of the d'Este Productions to the Sforza court in Lomhardy, an event which, as Thomas In all, betweenДЎ4 Ercole had an active role in presenting at least fourteenДifferent plays by Plautus and Terence. In fact, took a lead in the staging of Roman comedy. Sforza, daughter of the duke of Milan, as one of three plays on The festivities for the marriage of young Alfonso d'Este and Anna (2) Enthusiasm sparked another performance of this play at Menaechmus arriving in a galley with a sail, while the residentД«rother's city was realistically represented and painted in theД«ackground. Piacevole' reports that the production showed the traveling (1) AД¬ontemporary chronicler, describing the play as 'beletissima e Mistaken identity appears, more significantly, to have been the firstД¬lassical comedy so presented in vernacular translation. Publicly performed play in Ferrara, this lively comedy of twins and Holiday events, the staging of Plautus's Menaechmi. Thousands witnessed, with fireworks and other I's carnival entertainments honoring Francesco Gonzaga, betrothed Theater occurring at Ferrara on 25 January 1486, with Duke Ercole Consider, for example, that watershed in the history of European Instance of the Menaechmi contribution to drama, that play deserves toД«e seen as part of a larger picture of European, including English,Д¬omedy.

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