"Punchinello" Quotes from Famous Books
... upon establishing his parallel between Denmark and Italy. He traces it in the fondness of the Danes for art, poetry, and music, in their gay and joyous character, and in their dress. He even discovers an Italian punchinello figuring in a Danish puppet-show; and as it was during the month of August that he found himself in Denmark, the weather was not such as to dispel ... — Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 • Various
... the NEAPOLITANS most frequently use, are of the largest size. It is also from Naples that we have taken the Punchinello dance. ... — A Treatise on the Art of Dancing • Giovanni-Andrea Gallini |