Ostia, Diego de la

Diego de la Ostia was a producer of spectacles (Autor de comedias) and a dancer (danzante), a citizen of Toledo, and active there between 1561 and 1585. The contract which requires him to partake as a dancer. The performmance required 11 dancers, and includes 8 who had to wear the costumes of serranos and serranas, and who had to play instruments: 2 vihuelas de arco, 2 citoles (cítaras), lutes and 2 guitars. Another two dancers had to dress in the same manner as the eight, playing another two instrumentos that they also had to play while the others danced “because they had keep dancing with some bows, and the eleventh person had to serve as a guide and had to take their instruments and put them down for them whenever they had to dance with the said bows”

The contract (reprinted in cotareloMori, p. clxxiii-clxxiv and peralesB) is found among the documents. Both seem to have taken copies from the Barbieri papers in E-Mn, MS 14038. Barbieri gives the sources as Leg. 2.°, Archivo historico de Toledo without more specification.