Achille Majeroni (1824 – 20 January 1888) was an Italian stage actor and manager of a theatrical company. He was the eldest brother of
Eduardo Majeroni
Eduardo Majeroni (1840 – 20 October 1891) was an actor who toured the world with Adelaide Ristori, playing popular Italian dramas in their original language. He and his wife Giulia, a niece of Ristori, left the company in Australia and carved out ...
, well known in
Australia
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. His son
Achille Majeroni
Achille Majeroni (24 August 1881 – 12 October 1964) was an Italian film actor.
Born in Syracuse, Sicily, son of Achille Majeroni and his second wife Graziosa Bignetti, he made his stage debut at age twelve with the Marazzi-Diligenti c ...
(1881–1964), was an actor with a film career.
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History
Majeroni was born in Milan, the eldest son of Eduardo Majeroni, a former officer under Napoleon I
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and Antonia Majeroni, née Musich, who claimed noble Hungarian descent. The Majeronis were a long-established family in the Città Alta ("Upper Town") of Bergamo
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, Lombardy
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.
He joined the Giacomo Modena company in 1840, followed by Giacinto Battaglia's Lombard Drama Company, becoming their leading man in 1849 alongside Francesco Coltellini.
Like his youngest brother, he was imbued with patriotic fervor, and fought in the First Italian War of Independence
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, and in the cholera
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outbreak that followed, was a volunteer with the Compagnia della Misericordia.[
In 1854 he joined Adamo Alberti's ]Teatro dei Fiorentini Theatres for diverse musical and dramatic presentations began to open in Naples, Italy, in the mid-16th century as part of the general Spanish cultural and political expansion into the kingdom of Naples, which had just become a vicerealm of Spain. ...
, enjoying considerable success, especially in romantic dramas. In 1859 he undertook a world tour with Adelaide Ristori
Adelaide Ristori (29 January 18229 October 1906) was a distinguished Italian tragedienne, who was often referred to as the Marquise.
Biography
She was born in Cividale del Friuli, the daughter of strolling players and appeared as a child on the ...
.
In 1866 he and Fanny Sadowski founded a company which toured Italy to considerable acclaim.
His depiction of Othello
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has been ranked with that of Tommaso Salvini
Tommaso Salvini (1 January 182931 December 1915) was an Italian actor.
Life
Salvini was born in Milan to parents who were both actors, his mother being the popular actress Guglielmina Zocchi.
Finding the boy had a talent for acting, his father ...
, and was said to be a favorite of the King of Italy, who made him a Cavalier of the Crown of Italy, and he received similar honors from the King of Spain
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and the King of Portugal
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Through the n ...
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Personal
The family of Achille Majeroni includes:
*Concetta Luigia Gentile Majeroni (1857– )
*Mina Majeroni (1859–1861)
*Adélaïde Mathilde Julienne Majeroni (1859– )
In 1859 he married Graziosa Caldi-Bignetti, aka Graziosa Bignetti (1837–1919).
*Ferruccio Majeroni (1861–1927)
*Fede Italica Rosa Bianca Majeroni (1862– )
*Umberto Agesilao Masaniello Majeroni (1863– )
*Dante Majeroni (1863–1937)
*Emilia Majeroni (1864–1955)
*Angelica Eugenia Anna Majeroni (1865– )
*Torquato Majeroni (1868–1905)
*Vittorio Emmanuele Majeroni (1878– )
*Achille Majeroni (1881–1964) (sourc
Achille Majeroni family tree
The famous stage illusionist Amedeo Majeroni (1871–1932) was a grandson, a son of Michele Napoleone "Napoleon" Majeroni (1842–1918), not mentioned in the list above, and Adelaide Bruno (1845–1916)[ This article was compiled from information supplied by a descendant, Mrs. Rita Majeroni.]
Sources
Alberto Manzi (1934), "Achille Majeroni" Dizionario biografico degli italiani, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.
References
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1824 births
1888 deaths
Italian male stage actors
19th-century Italian male actors
Actors from Bergamo