Those peculiarly Italian institutions, the Renaissance academies, left behind them a most varied heritage of erudition and polite literature. From city to city they differed according to the differing tastes of their members, and just as the academies of Florence won renown for their research in philology, so those of Siena gained a reputation for fostering the art of play-writing. Isidoro Ugurgieri Azzolini says in his Pompe sanesi, ‘De’ Comici poi ci diffidiamo raccorre il numero preciso per la gran moltitudine che Siena n'ha havuti'. He adds that the Accademia dei Rozzi alone had printed almost one hundred comedies, and in his catalogue of Sienese men of letters he mentions constantly that his subjects had left at their death unpublished comedies, often boschereccie or rusticali. It is not surprising, then, that many plays of this period survive only in manuscript form, and that a few have even found their way to the new world.
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