La drammaturgia sperimentale di Gio. Battista Andreini, fra Commedia dell'Arte, poesia e teatri per musica

This study, at the beginning, had as principal purpose to analyze the interconnections between dramatic works of the playwright and actor, Giovan Battista Andreini, and the different types of theatres for music of baroque age. But, when the research work is started, the original objective, soon, is change. In fact, it's appear clear that the music dimension in Andreini's plays was, in truth, a manifestation of his great desire of innovation. So, the music prospective has become the best way to put in the right light the dramatic experimentalism of this playwright, one of the most important for the history of Commedia dell'Arte and Italian literature, and to discovered many, unknown, aspects of his poetry and personal philosophy. The Andreini's plays was investigated to contextualize them in the Italian and French spectacular societies of Seventeenth century, because Giovan Battista had spent long periods of his career, besides his own country, also in Paris, working at the court of Maria de' Medici and his son, Luigi XIII.