Le maschere romanesche nel teatro del Seicento. Sulla lingua di Jacaccia e Ciumaca nelle commedie di Pianelli e Benetti

Abstract

This paper analyses the language of Jacaccia and Ciumaca, two Romanescospeaking characters, playing in two different comedies: Li falsi mori by Giovan Battista Pianelli (1638) and I torti vendicati by Alessandro Benetti (1654). From a linguistic point of view, only the major texts of the 17th century have been the subject of in-depth studies, while plenty of aspects and an extensive production remain almost completely unexplored. Hence, this study offers interesting insights and important acquisitions concerning this period. The author provides a linguistic analysis, including phonetic, morphological and syntactic aspects; other known Romanesco texts have been taken into account to better describe the linguistic phenomenology of the texts analysed in this paper.