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FRANCESCO ANDREINI

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 971 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRANCESCO See also:ANDREINI  , See also:Italian actor, was See also:born at See also:Pistoia in the last See also:half of the 16th See also:century . He was a member of the See also:ANDREOSSY 971 See also:company of the Gelosi which See also:Henry IV. summoned to See also:Paris to please his See also:bride, the See also:young See also:queen See also:Marie de' See also:Medici . His wife See also:ISABELLA See also:ANDREINI (1562-1604) was a member of her See also:husband's company, distinguished alike for her acting and her See also:character,—commemorated in the See also:medal struck at See also:Lyons in the See also:year of her See also:death, with her portrait on one See also:side, and the firfire of Fame on the See also:reverse with the words aeterna See also:fama . She was also known in literature, her books including a See also:pastoral, Mirtilla (See also:Verona, 1588), a See also:volume of songs, sonnets and other poems (See also:Milan, 16or), and a collection of letters, published after her death . She inspired many of the See also:French poets, notably See also:Isaac du Ryer (d. c . 1631) . Her son GIAMBATTISTA ANDREINI (1578-1650) was born in See also:Florence, and had a See also:great success as a comedian in Paris under the name of Leylio . He was a favourite with See also:Louis XIII., and also with the public, especially as the young See also:lover . He See also:left a number of plays full of extravagant See also:imagination . The best known are L'Adamo (Milan, 1613), The Penitent Magdalene (See also:Mantua, 1617), and The Centaur (Paris, 1622) . From the first of these three volumes, which are extremely rare, Italians have often asserted that See also:Milton, travelling at that See also:time in their See also:country, took the See also:idea of See also:Paradise Lost .

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