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5 unusual facts about Vittorio Alfieri


Adelaide Ristori

In this she was rather coldly received, but she took Paris by storm in the title role of Alfieri's Myrrha.

Lev Lunts

His health was deteriorating, but he continued to write fiction and plays, and to make translations, including one of the play Saul by Vittorio Alfieri.

Piero Camporesi

(edit by) Vittorio Alfieri, Estratti d'Ossian e da Stazio per la tragica (Asti: Casa d'Alfieri, 1969)

Vittorio Alfieri

Rosmunda, the only one that could be of his own contrivance, and which is certainly the least happy effusion of his genius, is partly founded on the eighteenth novel of the third part of Bandello and partly on Prevost's Memoires d'un homme de qualite.

In his Filippo he has represented, almost with the masterly touches of Tacitus, the sombre character, the dark mysterious counsels, the suspensa semper et obscura verba, of the modern Tiberius.


Esteban de Luca

De Luca's columns advocated at length for the westward expansion into the pampas, and he became known also for his translations of works by Italian dramatist Vittorio Alfieri (numerous of whose plays were then produced in Buenos Aires).

Gaetana Goldóni Andolfati

She was celebrated in a number of different roles including Merope in a play by Maffei, and in various heroine roles of Alfieri plays.

Giovanni Andolfati

His company specialized in comedies by Carlo Goldoni, and plays such as La moglie saggia, Le tre Zelinde, Pamela nubile, in Ottavia and in Antigone by Vittorio Alfieri and the Galeotto Manfredi by Vincenzo Monti.


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