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Italian Carnival
Hundred and hundreds of years ago, the followers of the Catholic religion in Italy started the tradition of holding a wild costume festival right before the first day of Lent. Because Catholics are not supposed to eat meat during Lent, they called their festival, carnevale — which means “to put away the meat.” As time passed, carnivals in Italy became quite famous; and in fact the practice spread to France, Spain, and all the Catholic countries in Europe. Then as the French, Spanish, and Portuguese began to take control of the Americas and other parts of the world, they brought with them their tradition of celebrating carnival.
ITALIAN CARNIVAL MASKPULCINELLA
Pulcinella is a character that emerges
powerfully from the Commedia dell‘Arte.
Philosophical, eternally melancholic dreamer
as only a representant person of the
napolitan culture could be, Pulcinella has
spirit of his own. No tension or despair, his
melancholic approach to life makes him
coasts problems, situations, life adventure
and, at the end, simply getting out of
everything, in the same simply manner as
how he got involved. His costume is poor and
white.He wears a black mask and the
coppolone hat.
ARLECCHINO
Arlecchino is a poor character. He wears a
colourfull pached costume. A poem of the
masks tells that all the regional masks have
sewed a piece of the dress. Arlecchino is a
simple character. With his simpaty he
outwits all the arrogant and greedly
personages. He has an anarchic kind of
behavior, he is always hungry and without
money. He is the engine of the action in the
story of the “Commedia dell'arte”. The first
actor that played with the Arlecchino's
mask was Alberto Naselli in Bergamo, 1572.
ITALIAN CARNIVAL MASK
ITALIAN CARNIVAL MASK
DOCTOR PESTE
This mask is very famous and has a particular form. It is white with a long beak made of pasta and used by doctors to protect themselves from the contamination plague.
The doctors wear a long black dress.
ITALIAN CARNIVAL MASKBRIGHELLA
Brighella Cavicchio from ValBrembana is his whole
name.
This mask represents a cunning, clever servant
that can help his master, but even deceives him.
He is an unscropulouse character and he is able
to
do every kind of job: he can become a barman, a
soldier or a thief. He is the fulest servant of the
”Commedia dell'Arte”.
He is a mask from Bergamo Alta. He wears a
strange green lined shirt, large trousers, a short
cloak and a funny hat. His way of speaking is
dialect from Bergamo.