Fitta Palchi — keeper of theatre boxes — Zompini — Arti #27

Gaetano Zompini - Arti che vanno per via - plate 27 - Fitta Palchi - keeper of theatre boxes

Fitta Palchi — plate 27

The Arti che vanno per via nella città di Venezia (1753, 1770, 1785, etc.), by Gaetano Zompini (1700–1778), contains sixty engravings of common, mostly poor people, peddling their trades on the streets of Venice in the mid-1700s.

Text

In piazza de S. Marco semo avezzi
Fitar palchi ogni sera in sie teatri
D’Opera, e de Comedia a varij prezzi.

Translation

In Piazza San Marco we're used to
let theatre boxes every night in six theatres
of Opera and Comedy at different prices.

Notes

As elsewhere, wealthy people watched the theatre from separate boxes, which were let by agents at St Mark’s — the fita palchi.

See Boerio (1829), entries FITAR and PALCHÈTO.

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Bibliography

Boerio, Giuseppe. Dizionario del dialetto veneziano. Venezia : coi tipi di Andrea Santini e figlio, 1829.

Zompini, Gaetano. Le arti che vanno per via nella città di Venezia inventate ed incise da Gaetano Zompini, Aggiuntavi una memoria di detto autore. Venezia, 1785.

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