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Andreini family (sh) and fit(2) (iou)


Andreini family (sh)




Italian actors.

After their Marriage, Francesco Andreini (1548-1624) and Isabella Canali Andreini (1562-1604) founded the Compagnia dei Gelosi, one of the earliest and most famous of the commedia dell'arte troupes. Their son Giovambattista Andreini (1579?-1654) acted in his parents' company until งใ 1601, when he formed his own troupe, the Compagnia dei Fedeli. This troupe was invited to the French court in Paris, where Giovambattista Andreini wrote the play Adamo (1613), supposedly the inspiration for English poet John Milton's Paradise Lost.


fit(2) (iou)



fit noun1. Also fytte.
[Old English fitt, perh. identical with Old High German fizza border of cloth (German Fitze skein of yarn, thread with which weavers mark off a day's work) and Old Norse fit hem, but cf. FIT noun2.]
A section of a poem or song; a canto. obsolete exc. Hist. OE.
A piece of Music; a strain. arch. LME.