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Anima (play)
''Her Soul'' (''Anima'' in Italian) is the first play by Italian playwright Amelia Pincherle Rosselli, the grandmother of Italian poet Amelia Rosselli. The play received national acclaim and the Italian state gave the play a national prize. It was first performed in Turin on October 29, 1898 at the Gerbino Theater, starring Clara Dell Guardia. The inspiration for ''Her Soul'' was from the 1894 play ''The Rights of the Soul'' by Giuseppe Giacosa Giuseppe Giacosa (21 October 1847 – 1 September 1906) was an Italian poet, playwright and librettist. Life He was born in Colleretto Parella, now Colleretto Giacosa, near Turin. His father was a magistrate. Giuseppe went to the University of .... References Italian plays 1898 plays {{19thC-play-stub ...
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Amelia Pincherle Rosselli
Amelia Pincherle Rosselli (16 January 1870 – 26 December 1954) was an Italian writer. The daughter of Giacomo Pincherle Moravia and Emilia Capon, she was born Amelia Pincherle Moravia in Venice. Her family were wealthy non-practising Jews. Her nephew Alberto Moravia was also a writer. She married Giuseppe Emanuele "Joe" Rosselli (1867–1911) in 1892. The couple had three sons; her sons Carlo and Nello became an anti-fascist activists. The couple moved to Vienna where her husband continued his studies in music. Her play ''Anima'', staged in Turin in 1898, won a literary prize. The family moved to Rome and then Florence. The couple separated in 1903. Her son Aldo was killed during World War I. Her other two sons, Carlo and Nello, were exiled because they were opposed to fascism; they were later assassinated in 1937. Rosselli exiled herself from Italy, moving to Switzerland, England and the United States. She returned to Italy in 1946. She died in Florence at the age of 84 ...
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Amelia Rosselli
Amelia Rosselli (28 March 1930 – 11 February 1996) was an Italian poet. She was the daughter of Marion Catherine Cave, an English political activist, and Carlo Rosselli, who was a hero of the Italian anti-Fascist Resistance—founder, with his brother Nello, of the liberal socialist movement " Justice and Liberty." He and his brother were assassinated by La Cagoule, secret services of the Fascist regime, while the extended family was living in exile in France in 1937. The family then moved between England and the United States, where Rosselli was educated. She continued to speak Italian with her grandmother, Amelia Pincherle Rosselli, a Venetian Jewish feminist, playwright, and translator from a family prominent in the Italian Risorgimento, the movement for independence. Rosselli returned to Italy in 1949, eventually settling in Rome. She spent her life studying composition, music, and ethnomusicology and taking part in the cultural life of postwar Italy as a poet and l ...
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Turin
Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is mainly on the western bank of the Po (river), Po River, below its Susa Valley, and is surrounded by the western Alps, Alpine arch and Superga Hill. The population of the city proper is 847,287 (31 January 2022) while the population of the urban area is estimated by Larger Urban Zones, Eurostat to be 1.7 million inhabitants. The Turin metropolitan area is estimated by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD to have a population of 2.2 million. The city used to be a major European political centre. From 1563, it was the capital of the Duchy of Savoy, then of the Kingdom of Sardinia ruled by the House of Savoy, and the first capital of the Kingdom of Italy from 1861 to 1865. T ...
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Gerbino Theater
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Clara Dell Guardia
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Giuseppe Giacosa
Giuseppe Giacosa (21 October 1847 – 1 September 1906) was an Italian poet, playwright and librettist. Life He was born in Colleretto Parella, now Colleretto Giacosa, near Turin. His father was a magistrate. Giuseppe went to the University of Turin, studying in the University of Turin, Faculty of Law. Though he gained a degree in law, he did not pursue a legal career. He gained initial fame for his play ''Una Partita a Scacchi'' ("A Game of Chess") in 1871. His main field was playwriting, which he accomplished with both insight and simplicity, using subjects set in Piedmont and themes addressing contemporary bourgeois values. He wrote ''La signora di Challant'' (La Dame de Challant, The Lady of Challand), based on a novella by Matteo Bandello, for noted French actress Sarah Bernhardt, produced in New York in 1891. Giacosa wrote the final polished version of the libretto for Giacomo Puccini's ''Manon Lescaut'', which had been begun by Ruggero Leoncavallo, Marco Praga, Dome ...
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Italian Plays
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