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2 unusual facts about Virginia Ramponi-Andreini


Virginia Ramponi-Andreini

The first surviving copy of La Florinda is the 1606 edition, published in Milan where the Fedeli performed it for the city's Governor, Pedro Henriquez de Acevedo.

The Florentine singer Margherita Romana and the Neapolitan Ippolita Recupita (a singer in Cardinal Montalto's service) were deemed unsatisfactory.


Andreini

Giambattista Andreini, Francesco and Isabella's son, an Italian playwright and actor.

Erin Davie

In 2007 she played the character Isabella Andreini in the Lincoln Center Theater's production of The Glorious Ones.

Isabella Andreini

The death of Isabella was observed by the people of Lyon, with a public funeral and an engraved medallion of that year which featured Isabella's portrait on one side, and the figure of Fame on the reverse with the words aeterna fama. Although Francesco Andreini dissolved the Gelosi after her death, their son Giambattista Andreini, who was an actor and a playwright, started his own company, the Fedeli, with the original troupe of the Gelosi.


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