Financing Culture and Theatre. Remigio Paone between Economics and Politics (1899-1977)

The history of culture is a flourishing, well established field of historical research. As concerns in particular the “organisers” of the complex machinery that lies behind any performance, in recent decades attention has been focussed on the impresario1 as distinct from the capocomico (leader of a theatre company) or the agent, all figures linked to the commercial/entrepreneurial side of the theatre, united in reality by contacts and overlapping, as in the relationships between public and private.