Pulcinella's Brood

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By Karen T. Raizen

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This book traces the transnational arc of the Neapolitan clown Pulcinella in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, exploring how this unlikely hero and his brood engaged with questions that defined the Enlightenment in Europe.

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List of Illustrations
List of Musical Examples
Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Pulcinella’s Multiplicity in the Casamarciano scenari
2. Polichinelle Takes Paris (with Grill and Tongs)
3. Academic Eats: Pulcinella on the Roman Stage
4. Domenico Tiepolo’s Divertimento per li regazzi and the Miseducation of Pulcinella
5. Pulcinella as a Political Puppet
6. Postscript

Notes
Bibliography
Index