In the present day Fantoccini are exhibited in the open streets by the itinerant showman, whose ragged coat and battered hat show how puppets have fallen in the estimation of the fashionable public.
With those other vagabonds, I suppose," letting his eye fall on the members of the fantoccini troupe, "or in one of the stables.
On one occasion he accompanied Edmund Burke to witness a performance of the Italian Fantoccini or Puppets, in Panton Street; an exhibition which had hit the caprice of the town, and was in great vogue.
See here--a month ago, on the other side of the mountains, I met a fantoccini player.
