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groups are both attracted and repulsed by lower social class embodied by the peasant. Although mainstream criticism (e.g., Ulysse) considers Strascino, along with figures like Legacci and Mescolino, to be among the pre-Rozzi, or precursor of the ‘Congrega dei Rozzi,’ established in Siena in 1531, Valenti rejects that label for artists like Campani, Stricca Legacci, or Mescolino. She prefers to define them as ‘comici artigiani’ since she believes that the ‘comici’ acted before but also simultaneously with the Rozzi. For a complete discussion of the sociocultural scene that subtends the artistic activity of the pre-Rozzi, see Ulysse. Leer más