Illustrations

1. Couple in Venetian tabàro and baùta

2. Woman wearing morèta

3. Giacomo Casanova in his sixty-third year

4. Giandomenico Tiepolo, The Minuet

5. Pietro Longhi, The Rhinoceros

6. Venetian carnival

7. Cross-dressing in carnival: Venetian gnaga

8. Francesco Guardi, The Ridotto

9. A bull “thrown” by handlers

10. Masked Venetian

11. Arlecchino

12. Pulcinella

13. Domenico Fetti, Portrait of an Actor

14. Triumphal arch, Brussels

15. Fraud

16. Sincerity

17. The Word of an Honest Man

18. Loyalty

19. Mendacity

20. Lorenzo Lippi, Woman Holding a Mask and a Pomegranate

21. Salvator Rosa, Philosopher Showing a Mask to Another Person

22. Salvator Rosa, Self-Portrait

23. Masked beggar

24. Venetian engaged to be married

25. Spectators buying tickets outside theater

26. Venetian noble in winter dress

27. Venetian noble in winter dress (detail)

28. Masked ambassadors at banquet in ducal palace

29. Carlo Goldoni

30. Carlo Gozzi

31. Giandomenico Tiepolo, At the Leopard’s Cage

32. Pulcinella Swaddled in His Crib

33. Burial of Pulcinella

34. Birth of Pulcinella

35. Frontispiece, Divertimenti per li regazzi

36. Pulcinella Arrested

37. Pulcinella in Prison

38. Pulcinella before the Tribunal

39. Pulcinella’s Farewell to Venice

40. At the Lion’s Cage

41. Pulcinellas Bring Down a Tree

42. Tavern Scene

43. Tavern Scene, 1791

44. Execution by Firing Squad

45. Jacques Callot, The Firing Squad

46. Death by Hanging

47. Station 8, Stations of the Cross

48. Station 9, Stations of the Cross

49. Station 7, Stations of the Cross

50. Scourging of Pulcinella

51. Frontispiece, Stations of the Cross

52. Pulcinella’s Tomb