The Moresca and Mattaccino in Italy — around 1450-1630 Cover Image

Moreška i mattaccino u Italiji — oko 1450.-1630.
The Moresca and Mattaccino in Italy — around 1450-1630

Author(s): Barbara Sparti
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku
Keywords: history of dance; Moresca; Mattaccino; Italy

Summary/Abstract: The author discusses the moresca as it was performed in cities and courts from Rome to Venice, illustrating its multiformity, unique in all Europe with examples. Written references to the moresca first appeared in Italy around the mid-fifteenth century, and after about a hundred years, the moresca started getting mentioned less and less. Moresca and mattaccino were closely related, as they were, and still are, in the Americas. By the early seventeenth century, references to both these dance types have all but disappeared, replaced by the theatrical intermedio and the staged abbattimento. Finally, there is a brief discussion of the mattaccino, for which less material has surfaced, but which resembles the moresca in several ways: in its various guises and elusiveness.

  • Issue Year: 38/2001
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 129-142
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Croatian