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Il Capitano, Il Dottore, stock characters, the blocking character, the Miles Gloriosus, the Vecchi (old)
The Captain uses bravado and excessive shows of manliness to hide his true cowardly nature. Engraving by Abraham Bosse. (wiki2.org)
The Old Men: the Vecchi
The video inserted in Comments on “Monsieur de Pourceaugnac”, was about zanni in the commedia dell’arte. Zanni range from astute servants, confidantes, and laquais to unscrupulous tricksters: Sbrigani. But the video inserted below is about old men, called vecchi (a vecchio). They stand in the way of the innamorati‘s marriage. The innamorati are the commedia dell’arte‘s young lovers.
Among vecchi, we have the pedant or doctor (Il Dottore), the captain (Il Capitano), the miserly Pantalone, the miles gloriosus, (the braggart soldier and fanfaron, and the vecchio (the senex iratus [the angry old man]) Roman dramatist Plautus wrote Miles Gloriosus. Miles Gloriosus finds its origins in a lost Greek play entitled Alazṓn. The alazṓn is the name now given characters opposing the marriage of comedy’s young lovers. Characters supporting the young lovers or the eirôn. The word irony is derived from eirôn (see eirôn, wiki2.org).
In general the vecchi are portrayed as selfish, and quite prone to committing any and all of the seven deadly sins (lust, sloth, greed, pride, wrath, gluttony, envy.)
I am quoting Google’s The characters: the vecchi. One may also visit Micke Kingvall’s Posts. Micke’s posts deal with the commedia dell’arte, which includes “vulgar comedy,” the term used in Comments on “Monsieur de Pourceaugnac”.
Wikipedia now uses videos. I like it.
Sources and Resources
The characters: the vecchi (Google)
Micke Kingvall’s Posts
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Monsieur de Pourceaugnac par Adolphe Lalauze (theatre-documentation.com)
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A most informative video
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This video is very useful. The pedant is spelled pendant, but the information is accurate, which is all one requires. We are now doing Molière’s last play. It features vecchi, young lovers and their helper(s), servants, or zanni. 🙂
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This is my ancestor myself I have done two DNA test and have many cross matches with other decentsmy lineage comes done via the granddaughter Marie LeBorgne de Belisle Marie was the grand-daughter of Mathilde Pidicwammiskwe. This line comes down via my great grandmother Lucille Robichaud.
Please reach out to me I am always looking to learn more thank you
People may think we are crazy but a number of us decendents if Chief Madockawando and his daughters and son inlaw Jean-Vincent d’Abbadie de Saint-Castin are working to complete our family lines. We have a group for other decendents to share information . My family line going back is the Robichaud lineage. If there are other decendents that would like to share information please stop by
https://www.facebook.com/groups/377564809790101/
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Jean-Vincent d’Abbadie has descendants and you are one of them. He also has descendants in France. The French in North America needed Amerindians, because they could not have survived. Amerindians were not put on reservations until Confederation (1867). I also have Amerindian ancestry dating from the 17th century. France was not sending women to New France. So men married Amerindian women and their children married a French person or an Amerindian. The climate, of all things, shaped the history of New France. The first kind gesture, on the part of Amerindians, was saving the life of Cartier’s men. Cartier stayed too long so his ship was locked in by the ice. His men were dying, so they provided him with thuja occidentalis (white cedar) to cure scurvy. Cartier had taken two Amerindians to France the year before and had returned them to their father. They spoke French. Communication was possible. How could the voyageurs earn a living without the help of Amerindians?
I don’t know how I can reach out to you, but I can ascertain that your claim is historically valid. Best regards, Micheline P.S. I will look up the Facebook link.
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Thank you so much for your reply I sent you a message on your Facebook link it’s from Harold Myshrall . Our group is still new and we are slowly growing . But most of all it’s with the help of amazing individuals like yourself the helps keep our ancestors alive. Me and a decendent from the D’amour line of the family have been working together now trying to piece everything together. I also have a friendship with a historian named Emeric Spooner who has been a great help as well..
Thank you so much for your time and consideration.
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What you are doing is a testimonial to our history. I believe Jean-Vincent d’Abbadie is mostly forgotten, but I remember him.
Best, Micheline
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What you are doing is a testimonial to our history. I believe Jean-Vincent d’Abbadie is mostly forgotten, but I remember him.
Best, Micheline
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