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Updated: May 14, 2025
The Potsdam fire-engines would very likely be summoned." "Oh! That too! Well! La comedia e finita! Good-night!" "Sic transit gloria mundi! Sleep well!" Voltaire slept during the night, but not well, and was awakened on the following morning by the sound of salutes fired at Potsdam; from which he concluded that the King was holding manoeuvres.
Let him who says something keep his word." Then the banquet began. It is a peculiar study for an abstainer to look on at a midnight carousal, with a perfectly sober head, and to be the only audience and critic at this "divina comedia" where everyone acts unwittingly. The first act commenced with the toasts.
If it continues, eventually every man of rank will be dubbed by his own countrymen either a knave or a fool. January 31st. Finita la Comedia. Let fall the curtain. The siege of Paris is over; the last balloon has carried our letters through the clouds; the last shot has been fired.
Tampoco, responderemos, porque las que crean en novelas al pie de la letra, creerán al pie de la letra en la comedia, que es otra nueva novela para ellas; en la novela leen que aquél que se presentó incógnito se descubre ser luego hijo de algún señorón oculto, y en la comedia se descubre ser rico luego el pobre.
Beccari's immediate successors were of no great interest in themselves, and contributed little to the development of the form. In 1556 appeared a 'comedia pastorale, by the Piedmontese Bartolommeo Braida, a hybrid composition in octave rime, written possibly for representation at the court of Claudio of Savoy, governor of Provence and Marseilles, to whose wife it is dedicated.
The poet let us insist on this point should take counsel therefore only of nature, truth, and inspiration which is itself both truth and nature. "Quando he," says Lope de Vega, "Quando he de escrivir una comedia, Encierro los preceptos con seis llaves." To secure these precepts "six keys" are none too many, in very truth.
Any reader who is interested in this curious speculation of Columbus should refer to the "Divina Comedia" of Dante, where Dante himself held a somewhat similar view, and describes his entrance into the terrestrial paradise under the guidance of Beatrice.
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