Brief History of the Marionettes

The marionette is the theatrical puppet very ele-gant and varied; the kind endures greater trans-formations to second of the Country, indeed, of the continent in which we consider it. The Orien-tal people have loved for a long time the elegant marionettes, magnificent dressed, with the faces well painted and have manufactured in ivory, in china, in valuable wood and in varied materials. The diggings have revealed to us that not only the dolls-toys, but also the doll-marionettes, with the characteristic hole on the top of the head made for pass through wire, were notes to the ancient Rome. The poet from Venosa, Quinto Flacco Orazio, in the Book II of his Satire, gives to the marionette one famous and concise definition: "mobile lignum". We cannot forget