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The Sicilian puppet theater of Agrippino Manteo (1884 -1947) : the Paladins of France in America

Jo Ann Cavallo (Author)
"This study reconstructs the history of the Manteo family marionette theater in New York City, provides translations of eight selected plays and 270 extant summaries, and offers comparative analyses uncovering the creative process of adaptation from Italian Renaissance chivalric poetry to nineteenth-century prose complications to Sicilian opera dei pupi scripts." -- Back cover

Print Book, English, 2025
Anthem Press, London, 2025