Italian actor and playwright, born in Lucca on the 5th of March 1851, the son of a prompter. He made his first appearance in 1866, and played character and leading comedy parts in the best companies between 1871 and 1884. By 1885 he had his own company, and made a great success in Paris in 1898 and 1902. He established in Rome in 1900 a new theatre, the Casa di Goldoni, on the lines of the Comédie-Française. He dramatized Gaboriau’s Monsieur Lecoq, and alone or in collaboration wrote several comedies and many monologues. His tragedy La Masque, written in collaboration with Signor Bonaspetti, was produced in 1911. He died at Naples on the 29th of January 1919.
