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Milan, for Francesco Marchesino on November 12th, 1550. In 4th. On the title page the Vigilance brand, on the colophon the anchor brand with a dolphin in a circle surmounted by a double cross. initials: F. M. Splendid italic font by Marchesino, binding in full rigid parchment from the 18th century with title on red insert on the spine, on the pastedown ex libris by Ettore Petrolini (whose rich library was dispersed in 1938 in a public auction in Rome by the heirs).
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The Contile dedicated himself to comedy already in the Roman period, printing La Trinottia in 1542 (expanded in '44 and definitively republished in Milan in 1550). The scene takes place in Siena where the protagonists act - Philargyros, Brondius, Icanius - who respectively personify the deadly sins of avarice, lust and pride. "I, as varied as you see me, am human life, many faces, of which I am composed, it is my variety". The faces mentioned in the prologue are not only those of the protagonists, but the innumerable faces of the servants and courtesans, of the pimps and businessmen who invade the scene of the comedy not accidentally as they exemplify in every act a condition of poverty and segregation morality that is paid for, first of all, on the stage.
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