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The commedia pe museca, an entirely Neapolitan genre, is remarkable for its keen inclination to experimentation. It constitutes a performing experience which has among its most interesting features an extreme flexibility, in order to receive and assimilate every kind of influence deriving from the Neapolitan society.
Numerous plots are based upon love and passions: most literary and theatrical sources are centered around the amorous delirium, in all its manifestations.
Along with other authors from the 16th and 17th centuries, Tasso and Ariosto provide themes and situations for this comic genre. On the one hand, these contributions inspire the musical rendering; on the other, they reveal the timeless prestige of a literary production which continues to nourish the wide world of the performing arts.
The exemplary love stories become essential models for all the librettists who work on the “classics” so as to adapt them to the new expectations of the early Settecento theatre in the best way.