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See also: Italian actor, was See also: born at See also: Pistoia in the last See also: half of the 16th century
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He was a member of the
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See also: company of the Gelosi which See also: Henry IV. summoned to
See also: Paris to please his bride, the See also: young See also: queen See also: Marie de' See also: Medici
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His wife ISABELLA See also: ANDREINI (1562-1604) was a member of her See also: husband's company, distinguished alike for her acting and her character,—commemorated in the 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
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She was also known in literature, her books including a pastoral, Mirtilla (See also: Verona, 1588), a See also: volume of songs, sonnets and other poems (Milan, 16or), and a collection of letters, published after her death
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She inspired many of the French poets, notably Isaac du Ryer (d. c
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1631)
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Her son GIAMBATTISTA ANDREINI (1578-1650) was born in Florence, and had a See also: great success as a comedian in Paris under the name of Leylio
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He was a favourite with See also: Louis XIII., and also with the public, especially as the young
See also: lover
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He See also: left a number of plays full of extravagant See also: imagination
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The best known are L'Adamo (Milan, 1613), The Penitent Magdalene (See also: Mantua, 1617), and The Centaur (Paris, 1622)
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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 country, took the idea of See also: Paradise Lost
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