Account of European Theater 

The bookplate of Reuben Skelton found at the front of this history of European theater suggests that Jefferson may have obtained this copy on his marriage to Martha Skelton, Reuben’s sister-in-law.

Luigi Riccoboni wrote several documentary works on eighteenth-century Italian theater and especially on the style of Italian comedy. As the son of the original modern Pantalone, Riccoboni was well versed in the subject.

Jefferson owned very little of this kind of literature. He placed this copy in the section devoted to “Criticism―Theory.”

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