Luigi Riccoboni

Luigi or Louis Riccoboni , known as Lélio , born with Modena in 1674 and died in Paris in 1753, was a actor and literary man Italy N.

Riccoboni was a long time actor and known with the theater under the name of Lélio , by which one indicated the use of in love one. Strong young person still, it put himself at the head of a wandering troop and gave translations of Molière.

He tried to establish the dramatic system of the Comédie-Française in Italy, but the little of taste of its compatriots for the high comedy made him seek fortune in Paris with the famous Dominique, where he shared his successes. He became director of the Commedia dell'Arte, which obtained a rapid success and where he played several parts made up in his youth and whose collection appeared under the title of Nouveau Italian Theater (Paris, 1728,2 vol. in-12).

At the request of the duke of Parma, it withdrew towards 1729 with Parma, where he became intendant of amusements and inspector of the theaters but, two years after, the death of its guard, united with religious scruples which one sees stinging in his book of the Reformation of the Theater (Paris, 1743), determined it to return to Paris and to give up the dramatic art.

One owes him, inter alia, important a Histoire of the Italian Theater since the decline of the Latin comedy , Paris, 1728-31, 2 vol. in-8°; Observations over the Comedy and the genius of Molière , 1736; New Italian Theater , Paris, 1718 (collection of its plays); a verse translation of Andromaque , translations in prose of Britannicus and Manlius ; a poem Dell' Arte representativa (London and Paris, 1728, in-8°); Observations on the comedy and the genius of Molière (Paris, 1736, in-12); Thought on the declamation (1737, in-8°); Reflections and Critiques on the various theaters of Europe , (1738, in-8°) -, etc

It had his woman Elena Balletti, also actress and women of letters, the actor Antoine-François Riccoboni.

Source

Gustave Vapereau, universal Dictionary of the literatures , Paris, Hatchet, 1876, p. 1731

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