In the favorable context of the Italianizing court of Maria de Medici, but also of Louis XIII, the article focuses on the travels of Giovan Battista Andreini in Paris between 1613 and 1625. It intends to highlight the role of the famous actor-author and troupe leader in the export of Italian theatrical genres. This happens in a transitional era in which the old poetic models dissolve or transform (Adamo, Milan, 1613), and new comedy and new genres impose themselves: mixed genres, experimental monsters and opere in musica and a gran spettacolo (such as Amor nello pecchio, La Centaura, La Sultana or La Ferinda, Paris, 1622).