Drive, Sior paron! is undoubtedly a text aimed at young people. It is no coincidence indeed if the author is Gina Bellot, Venetian-born Roman by adoption, that it was in Rome he founded the first library for children and has also published a successful collection of poems for children entitled The cake retort and the best seller Stories masks. By Gina Bellot this book aims to present to the young and the Carnival of Venice does this by using, as it should be, an extremely simple, sometimes ironic, but that the greatest risk of being trivial. In fact, the text can also be no longer young, a valuable collection of info and tips on a holiday is as fascinating as the Venetian carnival.
The book goes through the history of the Carnival of Venice, from the origins. It explains the meaning, the role he played in the theater presents the festivities that characterize it for centuries and forms that represent it. It then concludes with a beautiful analysis of the protagonists masks of the Commedia dell'Arte: Pulcinella as Harlequin, Columbine by pants.
The texts are accompanied by beautiful images taken from reproductions of paintings by Canaletto and many other Venetian painters the eighteenth century, while the colorful drawings that accompany them are Christina Cerretti.
read this book and reflecting on what it is and that has become the modern Venetian Carnival, one realizes that it has lost its grandeur, the magnificence, the importance it back through the centuries have characterized it, but that still keeps the charm and mystery that always surround the Serenissima.
RATING: 3 / 5
Title: Drive, Sior paron! Stories and anecdotes of the Carnival of Venice
Author: Gina Bellot
Publisher: New Roman edition (series Twists)
Year: 2007
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