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Journal of Modern Italian Studies
RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI
Anno IX , n° 1, Giugno 1991 ( Contributi ) pag. 1-10

LEONE DE' SOMMI'S THE THREE SISTERS:
TOWARD A DEFINITION OF MANNERIST THEATRE
D. A. BEECHER
Carleton University,
Ottawa, Ontario
The term mannerism has been at the centre of a spirited dialogue among scholars for the last three or four decades. It is a term which has managed to gain a certain degree of emancipation in the face of opposition, largely because of a general recognition, by whatever name, of the phemomena it purports to describe, namely an increased dimension of stylization, a more conscious manipulation of forms and materials to gain unusual effects, that appeared in various degrees throughout the arts practiced in Italy in the late sixteenth century. [...]
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