Adelaide Ristori
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Adelaide Ristori was a distinguished Italian tragedienne, who was often referred to as the Marquise.
Adelaide Ristori
Photograph of Adelaide Ristori, 1860s
Adelaide Ristori in costume as Marie Antoinette, a role she played starting in 1867, ca. 1867-1885; from the Cabinet Card Collection of the Boston Public Library
As Elizabeth in Paolo Giacometti's Elisabetha regina d'Inghilterra
Vittorio Alfieri
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Count Vittorio Amedeo Alfieri was an Italian dramatist and poet, considered the "founder of Italian tragedy." He wrote nineteen tragedies, sonnets, satires, a notable autobiography, and translated Vir
Adelaide Ristori
…Paris, where the part of Francesca was chosen for her début. In this she was rather coldly received, but she took Paris by storm in the title role of Alfieri's Myrrha. Furious partisanship was aroused by the appearance of a rival to the great Rachel. Paris was divided into two camps of opinion. Humble playgoers…
Portrait by François-Xavier Fabre, 1793
Antonio Canova, monumental tomb of Vittorio Alfieri, Santa Croce, Florence, 1810
Frontispiece for Works by Alfieri, 1809 edition