Truffaldino – sługa dwóch żołądków

Abstract

The article treats about the relationship between one of Carlo Goldoni’s first plays – Servant of Two Masters – and the tradition of commedia dell’arte. The key to the search for common points was the character of a servant Truffaldino whose constant hunger links him to his predecessor zanni. Thanks to a never-before carried-out analysis of Brighella’s zibaldoni and zanni and Goldoni’s comedy in the context of vocabulary, metaphors and lazzi referring to food and hunger, it can be observed how much the contemporary plays of the Venetian writer are related to the old theatrical tradition.