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PAOLO GIACOMETTI (1816-1882)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 925 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GIACOMETTI (1816-1882)  ,
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Italian dramatist,
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born at Novi Ligure, was educated inlaw at
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Genoa, but at the
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age of twenty had some success with his
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play Rosilda and then de-voted himself to the
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stage . Depressed circumstances made him attach himself as author to various touring Italian companies, and his output was considerable; moreover, such actors as
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Ristori,
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Rossi and
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Salvini made many of these plays
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great successes . Among the best of them were La Donna (185o), La Donna in seconde nozze (1851), Giuditta (1857), Sofocle (186o) . La Morte civile (188o) . A collection of his
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works was published at
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Milan in eight volumes (1859 et seq.) .

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