The treatise is also found in the appendix to the Réflexions Historique et Critiques sur les Differens Théâtres de l'Europe (see) published in the same year and translated into English in 1741 with the title An Historical and Critical Account of the Theatres in Europe (see).

In his Pensées, Riccoboni makes emotional participation the key to the art of declamation, which is conceived as the result of an impulse dictated by the soul, not as mere technique. Interiority, rather than a pre-established code, is the source of all the words, gestures, actions of the subject who recites.

RECENT EDITIONS:
Published in: Sabine Chaouche (ed. by), Sept traités sur le jeu du comédien et autres textes. De l'action oratoire à l'art dramatique (1675-1750), Paris, Honoré Champion, 2001.