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See also:COUNT GIOVANNI See also:GIRAUD (1776-1834) , See also:Italian dramatist, of See also:French origin, was See also:born at See also:Rome, and showed a precocious See also:passion for the See also:theatre . His first See also:play, L'Onestd non si vince, was successfully produced in 1798 . He took See also:part in politics as an active supporter of See also:Pius VI., but was mainly occupied with the See also:production of his plays, and in 1809 became director-See also:general of the Italian theatres . He died at See also:Naples in 1834 . See also:Count See also:Giraud's comedies, the best of which are Gelosie per equivoco (1807) and L' A jo nell ' imbarazzo (1824), were See also:bright and amusing on the See also:stage, but of no particular See also:literary quality . His collected comedies were published in 1823 and his Teatro domestico in 1825 . |
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