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Atellan

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A`tel´lan
a.1.Of or pertaining to Atella, in ancient Italy; as, Atellan plays; farcical; ribald.
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But Plautus always presents parasites as worse and more voracious like Dossenus [a trickster type in the Atellan farces of south Italy, mentioned by Horace], never better; he attended to such characters almost exclusively, falling flat with the others.
Encountering Plautus in the Renaissance: a humanist debate on comedy by Hardin, Richard F. / Renaissance Quarterly
68,7, where a beautiful Alexandrian boy serving hot water imitates a nightingale and varies the melody according to Trimalchio's command, (55) and this spectacle is followed by another that consists of a poor combination of Virgil and Atellan farce and some sort of pantomime performed by Habinnas' favorite slave Massa.
Maecenas and Petronius' Trimalchio Maecenatianus by Byrne, Shannon N. / Ancient Narrative
If no one agrees any longer with nineteenth-century scholars that the commedia dell'arte derived directly from the late ancient Atellan farce, a more temporally proximate theatrical phenomenon has frequently been proposed in recent years as a generative antecedent: the performances in Venetian piazzas, banquet halls, and state venues of buffoni such as Domenico Taiacalze (d.
L'arte del buffone: Maschere e spettacolo tra Italia e Bavaria nel ... by Henke, Robert / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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