Strascino's compliant. Syphilis and the XVI Century Sienese theatre

Niccolo Campani, known with the nickname "Strascino" (as shabby, beggarly), is among the most important poets in the XVI Century in Italian theatre. Famous for his sharp-witted humor and the perfect Tuscan rhyming, the Sienese poet left a work whose subject is syphilis, cooght by Campany from 1503 to 1511. In Strascino's Compliant, the poet describes in rhyme the course and recovery of the illness, giving a very personal testimony of being ill with the "la malaise francaise" and a broad overview of the sixteenth Century in Italy