Italian Holidays and Performances of the late 15<sup>th</sup> - early 16<sup>th</sup> centuries
The article gives analysis of the first stage experiences of different theater genres in the Renaissance Italy. The work consists of three parts. The first and the third parts refer to the theater practice in «the eternal city of Rome» in the turn of the 15th-16th centuries. The second part is about events in Ferrara. The author, giving particular examples, analyses new positions of theater culture and states major aesthetic and thematic criteria of acting craft on the stage of Renaissance Italy.