Conference paper
THE MORESCA AND MATTACCINO IN ITALY— AROUND 1450-1630
Barbara Sparti
Abstract
The author discusses the moresca as it was performed in cities and courts from Rome to
Venice, illustrating its multiformity, unique in all Europe with examples. Written
references to the moresca first appeared in Italy around the mid-fifteenth century, and after
about a hundred years, the moresca started getting mentioned less and less. Moresca and
mattaccino were closely related, as they were, and still are, in the Americas. By the early
seventeenth century, references to both these dance types have all but disappeared, replaced
by the theatrical intermedio and the staged abbattimento. Finally, there is a brief
discussion of the mattaccino, for which less material has surfaced, but which resembles the
moresca in several ways: in its various guises and elusiveness.
Keywords
history of dance; Moresca; Mattaccino; Italy
Hrčak ID:
33256
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Publication date:
3.12.2001.
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