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Updated: May 4, 2025
The Donne Furlane was the piece, a comedy of art as they call it here or, as we say, a comedy of masks wherein the stock characters of Harlequin, Columbine, Brighella and Pantalone are given a rag of a plot, and are expected to embroider that with follies, drolleries and obscenities according as their humour of the moment may dictate.
We were to give the Artaserse, a tragedy of extreme length and magniloquence, and conclude with the Donne Furlane. The night arrived; the theatre was full from parterre to gallery; the boxes presented a truly brilliant spectacle. The curtain went up, and the play began.
What object could I have? Why should I become your enemy?" "That, sir," I said, "is what I intend to find out. Be so good as to add these to your denials if you can. Will you deny that you witnessed the performance of the Donne Furlane in Siena on the occasion of the Grand Duke's birthday last year?" He said, "I remember it, and a remarkable performance it was."
The persons who give the title to this particular farce the Donne Furlane are the lowest class of Venetian women, and their ceremonious name implies what we in England imply when we speak of the nymphs of Drury Lane or the sirens of Radcliffe Highway, calling them, in fact, exactly what they are not.
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