Italian Medieval and Renaissance Theatre and Spectacle

Transcriptions, Texts, and Translations

This is Nerida Newbigin’s homepage for research on Medieval and Renaissance Italian Theatre and Spectacle, carried out since 1969. An earlier site went live in June 2009, and following the closure of that site, this new WordPress site is being built.

I acknowledge with gratitude the assistance of the University of Sydney Library, the Australian Research Council, the Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies Villa I Tatti, and of the libraries and archives throughout the world that have preserved and made available the printed books and manuscripts that are the basis of my research. And most recently I am indebted to Michael Rosas of the Teaching and Technology Innovation unit of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences for his technical assistance, given generously in a time when the COVID pandemic has made unprecedented demands.

The site contains transcriptions, texts and translations prepared in conjunction with various aspects of my research and teaching on:

1. the spectacle and drama of fifteenth-century Florence

2. the comedy of sixteenth-century Florence

3. the comedy of sixteenth-century Siena

4. the Confraternity of the Gonfalone in Renaissance Rome

5. the drama of fourteenth-century Umbria

Copyright and Imprint Notice: Please respect the fact that the material on this site is copyright © Nerida Newbigin 2020. You are welcome to use it for personal study and for teaching. If you wish to make commercial use of it, please contact the copyright holder.

Many of the texts are imperfect. I welcome discussion, correspondence, correction of errors and notification of broken links: nerida.newbigin@sydney.edu.au.

Latest update: 22 February 2023.