Those who have been to Venice have probably witnessed some form of Commedia Dell’arte, an improvised form of comedy where archetypical characters perform in beautiful Venetian masks. One of these characters Il Dottore (the Doctor), represents a once-learned man who ironically struggles to comprehend anything new and fails to apply his scientific mind to the real world.
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