L'Anconitana = The Woman from Ancona

by Ruzante

Book Overview

In Italy Angelo Beolco, called Ruzante, is recognized as the most original of the Italian Renaissance dramatists. However, his plays are hardly known in English, mainly because few translators have been able to take on the Pavano dialect Ruzante employed for the character he played. With Nancy Dersofi's vigorous and faithful translation of L'Anconitana , presented opposite the authoritative version of the Italian text, Ruzante's most successful play...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520085264
• ISBN13: 9780520085268
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.1"