I am uncertain where this piece of information came from originally -- I neglected to write down the cite perhaps already transforming it into a scene I myself might write, while metally putting it into the "truth is stranger than fiction" category.
"A troop of Mattacini (masqueraders) came to celebrate a bridegroom's wedding and invited him to join in and participate in the play. At one point he "appears" to be killed and is loaded up in a mock funeral. Only later does the bride and family discover that he was indeed strangled by his rival."
Midori Snyder is the author of nine books for children and adults, published in English, French, Dutch, and Italian. She won the Mythopoeic Award for The Innamorati, a novel inspired by early Roman myth and the Italian "Commedia dell'Arte" tradition....
