Ένας θεατρόφιλος Βενετός στην Κέρκυρα και στη Δαλματία : τα θεατρικά ενδιαφέροντα του Pietro Semitecolo
Part of : Παράβασις : επιστημονικό περιοδικό Τμήματος Θεατρικών Σπουδών Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών ; Vol.4, No.1, 2002, pages 35-38
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35-38
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A Venetian who loved theatre : Pietro Semitecolo in Corfu and Dalmatia
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Μελέτες και άρθρα
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The comedy La fanciulla (The girl), written about 1569 by Giovanni Battista Marzi, is one of the sources of Katzourbos, the earliest known comedy in Modern Greek, by the Cretan playwright Georgios Chortatsis. The copy of La fanciulla in the Markian Library in Venice contains a handwritten note, “Letta adi 21 Novembre 1583 in Corfu essendo Castellan io Piero Semitecolo fo de misser Beneto”(“Read on 21 November 1583 in Corfu when I, Piero Semitecolo, son of the late Beneto, was Castellan”). The note has been taken to refer to a stage performance, which would be one of the earliest documented performances of a play in early modern Greece; however, that is not the usual meaning of the word Letta (“read”).Semitecolo is the same Venetian official who in 1612, as governor on the Dalmatian island of Hvar (Lesina), had a first-floor area on top of arsenal building fitted out as a theatre. This is the oldest surviving indoor theatre in southeastern Europe. Semitecolo’s initiative can be seen as part of the process by which Italian culture spread into the Venetian territories. Other administrators played a comparable role in Crete and elsewhere.
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δραματουργία
