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*A Note on the Early Theatrical Activities of Ferdinando Bibiena

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2010

Orville K. Larson
Orville K. Larson
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Kent State University
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For those interested in the activities of those great Italian theatre artists, the Bibiena family, the early work of Ferdinando, founder of this prestigious group of stage designers and theatre architects, is still not fully documented. Although Ferdinando was identified as “Pittore di Corte” to the Farnese Dukes of Parma between 1680 and 1708 by Giampetro Zannotti, his first biographer in 1739, information concerning his early theatrical activities is still meager. It is generally assumed that Ferdinando began his theatrical career with his work for the Farnese wedding festival in Parma in 1690.

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Notes and Comment
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Theatre Survey , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , November 1978 , pp. 177 - 179
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Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 1978

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References

NOTES

1 Storia dell’ Accademia Clementine di Bologna Bologna, 1739, II, 3.

2 Pollack, Oscar, “Bibiena,” Allgememes Lexicon derbilden Kunstler Thieme-Becker, (eds.) (Leipzig, 1909), III, 600–604Google Scholar; Mariani, Valerio, “I Bibiena,” Enciclopedia dello Spettacolo (Rome, 1954), II, 472–80.Google Scholar

3 The Bibiena Family (New York, 1945), p. 68.

4 Ilusione e pratica teatrale catalogo della mostra, a cura di Franco Mancini, Maria Teresa Muraro e Elena Povoledo (Vicenza, 1975), p. 76.

5 Cronistoria dei Teatri di Modena dal 1539–1871 (Modena, 1873), I, 80.

6 Tomasso Bezzi, called Stocchini, his son Pietre, and his brother Paolo, were a family of stage machinists who worked all through northern Italy as well as Venice, achieving a great reputation for their mechanical wizardry during the latter part of the seventeenth and early part of the eighteenth centuries. Tomasso died in 1729. Enciclopedia dello Spettacolo II, 454.

7 Gandini, p. 80.