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SALVINI, TOMMASO (1829– )

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SALVINI, TOMMASO (1829– ) , See also:Italian actor, was See also:born at See also:Milan on the 1st of See also:January 1829. His See also:father and See also:mother were both actors, and Tommaso first appeared when he was barely fourteen as Pasquino in See also:Goldoni's See also:Donne curiose. In 1847 he joined the See also:company of See also:Adelaide See also:Ristori, who was then at the beginning of her brilliant career. It was with her as Elettra that he won his first success in tragedy, playing the See also:title role in Alfiero's Oreste at the Teatro See also:Valle in See also:Rome. He fought in the cause of Italian See also:independence in 1849; otherwise his See also:life was an unbroken See also:series of successes in his See also:art. He acted frequently in See also:England, and made five visits to See also:America, his first in 1873 and his last in 1889. In 1886 he played there Othello to the Iago of See also:Edwin See also:Booth. Apart from Othello, which he played for the first See also:time at See also:Vicenza in See also:June 1856, his most famous impersonations included See also:Conrad in See also:Paolo See also:Giacometti's La Morte civile, Egisto in See also:Alfieri's See also:Merope, See also:Saul in Alfieri's Saul, Paolo in Silvio See also:Pellico's Francesca da See also:Rimini, See also:Oedipus in Nicolini's See also:play of thatname, See also:Macbeth and See also:King See also:Lear. Salvini retired from the See also:stage in 189o, but in January 1902 took See also:part in the celebration in Rome of Ristori's eightieth birthday (see the See also:Century See also:Magazine for June 1902, vol. lxiii.). Salvini published a See also:volume entitled Ricordi, anedotti ed inapressioni (Milan, 1895). Some See also:idea of his career may be gathered from Leaves from the Autobiography of Tommaso Salvini (See also:London, 1893). His son Allessandro (1861–1896), also an actor, had several notable successes in America, particularly as D'Artagnan in The Three Guardsrhen.

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