Il teatro del fuoco

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The legend of the Pyrotechnics observed and arranged like the interpreter of a thundering and cruel theatre to whose outcomes, sometimes, succumb itself authors. A long history of sophisticated engines, useless machines: Totemics tools for a ephemeral and superfluous marvel, unequivocal sign of a waste and empty-talk culture. The italian Pyrotechnics therefore wonderfully “contaminated” by the contribution of great reputation artists: Brunelleschi, Bernini, Fuga… told by Vasari and explicated by numberless empiricists and spreading essayies. A noisy adventure playing since more five hundred years on the stage of Festivity, always stealing the final and conclusive time. A legend its protagnists, nearly always, are the disowned strolling players of an explosive and unique and untransmittable scene.

 

SUMMARY

 

THE ORIGINS

The historical memory on the fireworks: The Greece.
The “wise” Fire of the human sufferings
Return in the lap of the mother war
Bacone, the contested gun powder inventor
The tragical prank of Buffalmacco and the liturgical language
Mars knocks insistencely at the door of the artifices
Riding the rockets to scale the sky
That Brancaleone army of the firespit monsters
The florentine serenates… with a sound of banging
The renaissance witty provocation of the Catherine-wheel
The Catherine-wheel and Savonarola: A fated occasion
Il Tribolo, Cosimo I and the “puppet makers” in the florentine festivities
With the “De Pirotechnia” the fireworks’essay makes his debut
Venice inflames with noisy christian pride
A precursory society “scoop” about the most gorgeous festivities
Between “improvised comedy” and fireworks, love is endured
The naumachia and the sulphureous battles

THE MACHINES’ CENTURIES

Machines and festivities between Reinassance and Baroque
The popular creativity wears the Punchinello’s clothes
The “culture of the waste” is -underhand- prevailed
From Norimberga to Rome two different techincal and tasteful choices
Between mythological lightinings and bangs, wine gushes out of the fountains
Masaniello, Cuccagna and Vesuvio: Three times of the pyrotechnical theatricalism
The ironic mysteriousness of the Bernini’s elephant
Naples, spoiled by the plague, reacts with navy darts
That inexhaustible source of inspiration called mythology
Towards an integration between pyrotechnics and territory
The decodification of an underground and allusive language
And the fireworks’ scene had its supers
A victory over the Turks and the baroque sun
Music and fire are completed on the luminous pentagram
The 1700’s: The “Light of Reason” are ignited
The siblings Ruggieri, one great dynasty of pyrotechnicians
Paris and Venice: From The Sun Palace to the Doge’s Vengeance
Milan, Rome, Naples, Turin, Bologna: Fire at will
Ferdinando Fuga: a great architect lend to the Fires’Art
On the stage of the pyrotechnician theatre breaks in the color!
Technical severity and inventiveness in the Frizier’s and Alberti’s works
More and more complicated machines for marvellous effects
The pyrotechnics enter in the “Encyclopedia” but round the corner is standing the tragedy
Small firm and fireworks, but the animals face the consequences
The white-hot occasion between Revolution and pyrotechnics

THE AERIAL SCENE

Politics support an art in crisis
The production of the historical literature is proving itself
Two kinds of theatre arm-in-arm
The society changes and the spirit of the festivity too
A tricolour explosion receives Garibaldi
The Church “pyrotechincal revenge”
New category of fun is born with the “fires by day”
The “Brindellone” or the florentine oracle
The taste of the absurdity, common vocation of the carnival and fires
A Saint, unwillingly, explosive
And from the industrial production the talent of the pyrotechnist was detached