Leone de' Sommi: Jewish participation in Italian Renaissance theatre.
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Title
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Leone de' Sommi: Jewish participation in Italian Renaissance theatre.
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Identifier
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AAI9119614
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identifier
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9119614
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Creator
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Botuck, Wendy Sue.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Cynthia Munro Pyle
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Date
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1991
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Theater | History, European
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Abstract
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The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the life and career of the theatrical artist, playwright and philosopher Leone Ebreo de' Sommi (1525/7-1590/2) within the context of Renaissance culture in sixteenth-century Italy. Before de' Sommi actually becomes the subject of discussion, several elements which contributed to the fertility of cultural endeavor are to be addressed. The chief of these is the propagation of the humanist ideal in Italy, with a view toward the roles therein played by playwriting and theatrical production. The participation in this movement by Jewish scholars other than de' Sommi is to be given particular attention. As one draws closer to the years of Leone de' Sommi's active years in the theatre, the theatrical traditions of both the Jewish and non-Jewish populations in Italy are addressed. De' Sommi, an inhabitant of the city-state of Mantua which was ruled by the culturally-minded Gonzaga family, is but one of many artists who pursued careers against the rich background of artistic patronage enjoyed by all who lived in that city.;The actual treatment of Leone de' Sommi's involvement in theatrical and community matters is addressed in several ways. One is biographically, in a chapter which attempts to draw a portrait of this multi-sided man. Another is through identifying where his treatise Quattro dialoghi in materia di rappresentazioni sceniche (written ca. 1565, published in its original language in Milan: Edizioni Il Polifilo, 1968) stood within the spectrum of what was being written dramaturgically at the time. Another was by examining the four of his plays that remain extant: Tre sorelle (Three sisters, published for the first time in Milan: Edizioni Il Polifilo, 1982), Hirifile, Il Tamburo (both these plays appear in print for the first time in the Appendices of this dissertation), and Tsahoth B'dichuta d'Kiddushin (translated from the Hebrew as The Comedy of Wedlock, written ca. 1550, published Jerusalem: Tarshish Books, 1946).;In summation, the career of Leone de' Sommi and the contributions he made to the growth of the theatrical medium are shown to be considerable, and worthy of note.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
