Gianni Schicchi de' Cavalcanti

The question widely debated by the glossators, albeit with some differences but substantially the same, is that this Schicchi was famous for the imitations of people and that when the rich widower and childless Buoso died, he, at the request of his friend Simone Donati, Buoso's nephew, sneaked into the bed of the deceased shortly after his death and called a notary and dictated a will in favor of Simone, which was promptly ratified. For himself, it seems that he was entitled only one mare (quoted by Dante) which is an indication of the burlesque and novella character of what happened.

Works inspired by Schicchi

• Gianni Schicchi is depicted fighting Capocchio in William Bougereau's painting Dante and Virgil.

• Starting from this story, and with much lighter and more pleasant stylistic characters, Giacomo Puccini composed the comic opera Gianni Schicchi,^[1] performed in 1918. Another famous play is the comedy Gianni Schicchi by Gildo Passini,^[2] which made its successful debut in Milan in 1922 at the Olympia theatre, staged by the Compagnia Talli-Melato-Betrone.

Bibliography

• Vittorio Sermonti [it], Inferno, Rizzoli editions 2001.
• Umberto Bosco and Giovanni Reggio, La Divina Commedia – Inferno,^[3] Le Monnier 1988.
• Fabrizio Scheggi, Il Mugello nel libro di Montaperti,
  ISBN 9788899386078

External links

• Gianni Schicchi