caa a22 4500 386383944 CHVBK 20180307112052.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0307883300005514 doi S0307883300005514 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0307883300005514 Marcigliano Alessandro University of Manchester The Development of the Fireworks Display and its Contribution to Dramatic Art in Renaissance Ferrara [Elektronische Daten] [Alessandro Marcigliano] In Pirotechnia (1558), Vanuzzo Biringuggio describes several ways of making ‘fuochi lavorati' or fireworks, and he mentions the great skill of the Florentines and Romans in this special art. Their famous ‘castelli' and ‘girandole' were built for special festivities, such as Pentecost in Florence or the election of a new Pope in Rome. The custom of using firework displays as a popular expression of joy or ‘allegrezza', was shared by several Italian towns during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and Ferrara was no exception. The capital of Este's duchy provides an interesting example of how pyrotechny eventually became independent of popular and Carnival-like displays, and an established feature of court entertainments. Ferrara, one of the liveliest theatrical cities of the Italian Renaissance, provided a fertile ground for the development of firework displays. Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1989 Theatre Research International Cambridge University Press 14/1(1989), 1-13 0307-8833 14:1<1 1989 14 TRI https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883300005514 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883300005514 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Marcigliano Alessandro University of Manchester NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Theatre Research International Cambridge University Press 14/1(1989), 1-13 0307-8833 14:1<1 1989 14 TRI CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge