Essay explores the contributions of Don Pietro Paolo Andreini to his family's theatrical and medical legacy, highlighting interdisciplinary connections.
This essay begins by reuniting Don Pietro Paolo Andreini (ca. 1576–1631), a Vallombrosan monk and alchemical healer, with his theatrical family. Usually dismissed as an outsider relative to his celebrated kin, including his mother Isabella Andreini (ca. 1562–1604) and brother Giovan Battista Andreini (1576–1654), Don Pietro Paolo emerges in this exploration as an important contributor to his family’s interdisciplinary endeavors. His story makes clear the genealogies of performance shared by comic theater, medicine, and natural magic, as well as the modality of serious play animating them all.
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