The masterpiece by Giovan Battista Fagiuoli, a prolific Tuscan writer (1660-1742), presented here in an appearance prior to the 1724 printed princeps. It is a handwritten copy of the famous work, first performed in 1708, performed by Francesco Flamini on the occasion of its first performance in Recanati during the Carnival of 1715. Important and rare witness of the handwritten circulation of Fagiuoli's works, often performed for the use and consumption of the theatrical companies that staged them.
" What appears is not , & nbsp; cicisbeo disconsolato , [...] is considered his masterpiece and which, from the date of its first performance (1708), had countless replicas: thirteen, as Fagiuoli informs us, in that same year , and seventeen when the comedy was resumed in 1725; furthermore Cicisbeo, unlike d the other texts by Fagiuoli that encountered real difficulties outside Tuscany due to language barriers, were represented everywhere and his success was always unconditional (Casale Monferrato, Rome, Cremona, Bologna, Naples, Venice and Vienna). The greater representability of the & nbsp; Cicisbeo dejected & nbsp; was also its limitation: as Goldoni observed, the text had "been adapted by the comedians but disfigured and reduced to the shape of their messes" (p. 716). "Treccani, on line .