What is "commedia"

Usage examples of "commedia".

In the courts and squares of the great cities ambassadors from Brasil and Benin, from Eireland and Corea mingled with tabaco sellers, with commedia players from Bergamo, with dealers in fortune bonds.

And Dante calls it a commedia, my dear sir, because it is written in his rustic Italian tongue instead of Latin and because it ends happily, with the poet rising to Heaven, as opposed to a tragedia.

Longfellow opened their Dante meetings with a recitation of the first lines of the Commedia in unassumingly perfect Italian.

Most of my brethren who have been forced to come here can barely read a newspaper, much less La Commedia di Dante, which penetrates the very soul of man equally in all its despair and all its joy.

I suggested we conduct the introductory Italian lessons by reading the Commedia together, line by line.

Cal watched him move from table to table, watched his face run a gamut of hammy theatrical expressions, each one donned and doffed like a Commedia del Arte mask.

And the clear, heart-aching music mocking it all, down to those last words: La commedia e finita!

I backed through an alley only to find my path obstructed by an articulated trash hauler so huge, so sinister, I thought of Dante at the beginning of the Commedia, his way blocked by the she-wolf of appetite.

Divina Commedia was the first real science fiction work, with the radiant Beatrice the first astronaut.

Divina Commedia among the works of science fiction, something that undoubtedly would have surprised the authors.

So, for example, we find religious allegories like John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and Dante Alighieri's Divina Commedia among the works of science fiction, something that undoubtedly would have surprised the authors.

It contained the poet’s copy of Vergil as well as his own and Boccaccio’s works and Dante’s Commedia.

These masks, the Bauta, the Domino, the Gagna, the Primo Zanni, the Plague Doctor, are not figures from the Commedia dell'arte, as is often thought.

During the fall he became intrigued by commedia dell'arte and he has conceived a play in this form whose central character is a female painter of immense pornographic canvases.

Zo held her expression steady, though the young man's indignation had a commedia dell'arte quality that was quite funny.