capranio

Updated: August 10, 2026

In 1697, I saw at Venice an elephant discovered on the stage, when, in an instant, an army was seen in its place; the soldiers, having by the disposition of their shields, given so true a representation of it as if it had been a real elephant. In Rome, at the Theatre Capranio, in 1698, there was a ghost of a woman surrounded by guards.

R. J. Broadbent - A History of Pantomime