teatrino

The devils were naturally among the dramatis personae of the teatrino, but they had to be got ready and repaired and provided with all things necessary for them to make the subterranean road.

Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions Henry Festing Jones 1889

Palermo, si mangia nella maniera che ti faro vedere da un diavolo nel teatrino.

Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions Henry Festing Jones 1889

As you know, I am always busy in the teatrino; the other evening we repeated Samson, that play which you once saw here.

Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions Henry Festing Jones 1889

Bellini because he is not Schubert would be to adopt the attitude of the buffo's critic who escaped from Paris in the teatrino at Palermo; nevertheless the countrymen of Schubert have known how to appear before the world clothed in the solemn splendour of Haydn's majestic Hymn to the

Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions Henry Festing Jones 1889

Brazil and stayed there five years running a marionette theatre; when they returned to Palermo, they left behind them in South America the eldest son, Gaetano, who still keeps a teatrino there.

Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions Henry Festing Jones 1889

All this about your father's dressing-gown happened half a century ago, and the letter and the article in the _Times_ must have done some good because the English gentlemen who come to the teatrino do not dress like that now.

Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions Henry Festing Jones 1889

"Just as the buffo dominates all the marionettes in the teatrino," I interpolated.

Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions Henry Festing Jones 1889

On arriving at Palermo, I went to the teatrino at about ten at night; not seeing the buffo in his usual place keeping order at the door, I guessed he must be on the stage and, knowing the way, passed through the audience, dived under the proscenium, crept along a short passage, mounted a ladder and appeared among them unannounced.

Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions Henry Festing Jones 1889

Nevertheless I send you this one now, it was taken by an English lady who came to the teatrino last summer; you see me getting into a rage with a paladin, I am talking seriously to him and swearing at him because he will not let me dress him properly.

Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions Henry Festing Jones 1889

But of course if he never came to the teatrino he could not know.

Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions Henry Festing Jones 1889