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RISTORI, ADELAIDE (1822-1906)

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RISTORI, See also:ADELAIDE (1822-1906) , See also:Italian actress, was See also:born at Cividale del See also:Friuli on the 3oth of See also:January 1822, the daughter of strolling players. As a See also:child she appeared upon the See also:stage, and at fourteen made her first success as Francesca da See also:Rimini in Silvio See also:Pellico's tragedy. She was eighteen when for the first See also:time she played See also:Mary See also:Stuart in an Italian version of See also:Schiller's See also:play. She had been a member of the Sardinian See also:company and also of the Ducal company at See also:Parma for some years before her See also:marriage (1846) to the marchese Giuliano Capranica del Grillo (d. 1861); and after a See also:short retirement she returned to the stage and played regularly in See also:Turin and the provinces. It was not until 1855 that she paid her first professional visit to See also:Paris, where the See also:part of Francesca was chosen for her debut. In this she was rather coldly received, but she took Paris by See also:storm in the See also:title role of See also:Alfieri's Myrrha. Furious partisanship was aroused by the See also:appearance of a See also:rival to the See also:great See also:Rachel. Paris was divided into two camps of See also:opinion. Humble playgoers fought at See also:gallery doors over the merits of their respective favourites. The two famous See also:women never actually met, but the See also:French actress seems to have been convinced that Ristori had no feelings towards her but those of admiration and respect. A tour in other countries. was followed (1856) by a fresh visit to Paris, when Ristori appeared in See also:Montanelli's Italian See also:translation of See also:Legouve's See also:Medea.

She repeated her success in this in See also:

London. In 1857 she visited See also:Madrid, playing in See also:Spanish to enthusiastic audiences, and in 1866 she paid the first of four visits to the See also:United States, where she won much See also:applause, particularly in See also:Giacometti's See also:Elizabeth, an Italian study of the See also:English See also:sovereign. She finally retired from professional See also:life in 1885, and died on the 9th of See also:October 1906 in See also:Rome. She See also:left a son, the marchese Georgio Capranica del Grillo. Her Studies and See also:Memoirs (1888) provide a lively See also:account of an interesting career, and are particularly valuable for the chapters devoted to the psychological explanation of the characters of Mary Stuart, Elizabeth, Myrrha, See also:Phaedra and See also:Lady See also:Macbeth, in her See also:interpretation of which Ristori combined high dramatic See also:instinct with the keenest and most See also:critical intellectual study. See also Kate See also:Field, Adelaide Ristori: A See also:Biography (New See also:York, 1867) ; E. Peron See also:Kingston, Adelaide Ristori: A See also:Sketch of her Life (1856); Daily See also:Telegraph (London, Oct. to, 1906).

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