Resumen de Comicità e modelli di performance
This paper would outline which delivery and gestures could be appropriate in Rome between first century BC and the first century AC to an orator who would arouse a smile in the audience or provoke laughter, now to gain the benevolence of the judges, now to ease the tension in the audience, or to discredit the counterparty in a process, turning laughter into mockery. The technical rhetorical precepts taken into consideration outline an ‘actio’ / delivery polite and moderate, never scurrilous, rough or coarse.
