“Worthless Idiot, Donkey Head” Parodies of Pedantry on the Renaissance Stage
By Arnoud S. Q. Visser via @publicdomainrev
Pompous know-it-alls were once a mainstay of mockery on the Italian stage.
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/parodies-of-pedantry/
Il pedante by Francesco Belo is available at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34640
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