Resumen de Due disegni di Giulio Parigi per gli allestimenti fiorentini del 1608
The author presents two little-known drawings by the Florentine architect and stage designer Giulio Parigi, connecting them with the ephemeral apparatus displayed during the marriage of Prince Cosimo de' Medici to Maria Maddalena of Austria in 1608. The first sheet, an unpublished pen and ink drawing in an unknown location, is a scenery sketch for the fourth intermezzo of the pastoral comedy Il giudizio di Paride (The Judgement of Paris) by Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger, with a representation of L'Arrivo di Amerigo Vespucci nel Nuovo Mondo (The Arrival of Amerigo Vespucci in the New World). The second drawings, housed in a private collection, shows a raft and fluvial allegories; it is proposed here that this was a sketch for the Argonautica, a complex costumed naval spectacle held on the Arno on the same occasion. The two drawings cast new light of the elaborate designs for the statings of 1608, providing striking examples of Parigi's graphic versatility.
