Giambattista Lorenzi Reader of Cervantes: Reflections on a Neapolitan “Don Chisciotte”
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https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i3.6593Keywords:
Don Quixote, Cervantes, Lorenzi, Paisiello, theatreAbstract
The contribution focuses on the comedy for music entitled Don Chisciotte della Mancia, the result of the collaboration between Giambattista Lorenzi, author of the libretto, and Giovanni Paisiello, who composed the music. The text was performed for the first time in the summer of 1769 in one of the oldest theaters in Naples: the Teatro dei Fiorentini. The libretto has often been considered lacking of originality because it is too similar to the other quixotic works that had been represented in previous years in Italy. Through the analysis of certain points of the first booklet we want to show that Lorenzi, even if moving within the theatrical tradition he knew perfectly, managed to introduce original elements into his work and that, in order to do so, he compared himself also with the Cervantes novel.
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