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Formation of the first Commedia dell’Arte companies Scaliger’s and Castelvetro’s commentaries on Aristotle’s Poetics
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Trissino’s Sophonisba produced in Vicenza by the Olympic Academy
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Palladio starts to build the Teatro Olimpico at Vicenza
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The Teatro Olimpico at Vicenza opens with a production of Giustiniani’s Oedipo Tiranno
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Ottari Rinuccini's opera seria, Daphne, with music by Jacopo Peri, produced in Florence
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Aleotti completes the Teatro Farnese in Parma
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The first opera house opens in Venice
