Resumen de "E farmi tutto un occhio solo". La "vocazione teatrale" di Tomaso Buzzi
"And make all of me a single eye". Tomaso Buzzi's "theatre vocation".
Among the many interest of Tomaso Buzzi, one of the leading figures of the Novecento who is still often overlooked -though it must also be said, and perhaps especially, from a certain moment, at his own precise desire- that of the theatre was probably the earliest and longest lasting of his professional and personal endeavours. Such that one can speak, in his case, of a genuine "theatre vocation". The essay retraces this trought the scattered notes and writings published by the author on it, but also through the various theatres he designed and built (the Teatro della Cometa in Rome, the underground theatre for Felice Riva in Milan, the little theatre at the Castello di Brignano Gera d'Adda, etc.), and on to the extraordinary apparatus consisting of the seven theatres of his "opus magnum", the Scarzuola. This subject was central to the country that Buzzi loved the most of those past: the sixteenth. In it, the terms Renaissance and Mannerism were none other than two sides of the same coin: the hope (with great summits) and fall (with as many peaks) of the utopian dream, also Buzzi's, of being able to recover the ancient. Theatre allowed this great attempt to be staged and, although it failed, it opened the doors to modernity, of which Buzzi himself was one of the most emblematic figures, paradoxically precisely because of his look back. The cenrte of all this was dominated by the "eye", the organ "princeps" of vision according to the Greeks and also to Leon Battista Alberti, from whom Tomaso actually "stole" the device: the "winged eye". And, hidden behind one of his finest versions, at the centre of the Scarzuola "Theatrum mundi", in his secret studio, Buzzi looks, on one hand the nymphaeum of Diana and Actaeon and, on the other, as genuine, disenchanted voyeur and new Actaeon without the risks run by the latter, at the ridiculous spectacles of worldliness and its monsters.
