Ballard Institute & Museum of Puppetry presents
The Sicilian Puppet Theater of Agrippino Manteo (1884-1947)
a Puppet Forum with Dr. Jo An Cavallo
In the forum, Dr. Cavallo will discuss her recently published book The Sicilian Puppet Theater of Agrippino Manteo, the first-ever study of the vibrant popular spectacle of the Manteo family’s puppet theater in New York City in the 1920s and 30s, including founder Agrippino Manteo’s new-world presentation of original Paladini di Francia scripts from his mentors in Sicily.
Jo Ann Cavallo is Professor of Italian and Chair of the Italian Department, Columbia University. She has published widely on Italian literature and culture, especially chivalric epic in popular traditions. Her latest book, The Sicilian Puppet Theater of Agrippino Manteo, was recently awarded a UNIMA-USA Nancy Staub Award and is forthcoming in Italian. Her previous book, The World beyond Europe in the Romance Epics of Boiardo and Ariosto, received a Modern Language Association Publication Award and was also translated into Italian. She has edited several volumes, most recently World Epics and Puppet Theater and Teaching World Epics, and is series editor of the Anthem World Epic and Romance book series.
Co-sponsored by the University of Connecticut Italian Literary and Cultural Studies Program.
Admission to this event is free (donations greatly appreciated!), and refreshments will be served. This forum will also be broadcast via Ballard Institute Facebook Live (facebook.com/BallardInstitute).
For more information or if you require accommodation to attend a forum, please contact Ballard Institute staff at 860.486.8580 or bimp@uconn.edu.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT!
Enjoy dinner in Downtown Storrs before the forum. There are over 20 dining destinations within a 7-minute walk of the Ballard Institute & Museum of Puppetry! See what’s cooking here.
Pictured: Square Peg Pizzeria (9 Dog Lane)
PARKING is available in the Downtown Storrs Parking Garage, which is FREE for your first 2 hours and just $1/hour thereafter. The garage is about a 2-minute walk from the Ballard Institute & Museum of Puppetry.