L'incerto fine. La peste, la legge, il teatro

The title "L'incerto fine" belongs to Giovan Battista Andreini, who imagines a "subject" or "suddenly" metatheatrical performance, of which the actors who interpret it do not know the outcome. The book presents an idea of ​​comedy, starting from the fact that the same etymological root unites fatum and fabula. There are three main events to which it is dedicated: the "happy ending" in relation to the "horrid beginning" in the sign of the plague of the Decameron, the conclusion of some comedies by "Italian" Shakespeare - or rather of their relationship with Boccaccio, in the contrast to the tragic law of a "comic jurisprudence" - and the contrasting return of the mandatory nature of the tragic ending in the fiction of "subject" representation in Pirandello's metatheatrical dramaturgy.