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Adelaide Ristori
Adelaide Ristori (29 January 1822 – 9 October 1906) was a distinguished Italian tragedienne, who was often referred to as the Marquise. Biography She was born in Cividale del Friuli, the daughter of strolling players and appeared as a child on the stage. At age fourteen, she made her first success as Francesca da Rimini in Silvio Pellico's tragedy of the same name. At eighteen she was playing '' Mary Stuart'' in an Italian version of Friedrich Schiller's play of the same name. She had been a member of the Sardinian company and also of the Ducal company at Parma for some years before her marriage to Giuliano Capranica, '' marchese'' del Grillo, in 1846. After a short retirement from her career, she returned to the stage and played regularly in Turin and the provinces. It was not until 1855 that she paid her first professional visit to 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cividale Del Friuli
Cividale del Friuli (, locally ; ; ) is a town and (municipality) in the Regional decentralization entity of Udine, part of the North-Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. The town lies above sea-level in the foothills of the eastern Alps, by rail from the city of Udine and close to the Slovenian border. It is situated on the river Natisone, which forms a picturesque ravine here. Formerly an important regional power, it is today a quiet, small town that attracts tourists thanks to its medieval center. History Archaeological findings reveal that the area was already inhabited in Paleolithic and Neolithic times. During the Iron Age the region was settled by Veneti and Celts. Due to the location's strategic position on the northeastern frontier of Roman Italy, in 50 BC, the Romans founded there a ''castrum'', which afterwards was transformed by Julius Caesar into a '' forum'' and its name changed into ''Forum Iulii'' ("Julius' marketplace"; Fréjus had the same Roman name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Legouvé
Gabriel Jean Baptiste Ernest Wilfrid Legouvé (; 14 February 180714 March 1903) was a French dramatist. Biography Son of the poet Gabriel-Marie Legouvé (1764–1812), he was born in Paris. His mother died in 1810, and almost immediately afterwards his father was removed to a lunatic asylum. The child, however, inherited a considerable fortune, and was carefully educated. Jean Nicolas Bouilly (1763–1842) was his tutor, and instilled in the young Legouvé a passion for literature, to which the example of his father and of his grandfather, Jean-Baptiste Legouvé (1729–1783), predisposed him. As early as 1829 he carried away a prize of the Académie française for a poem on the discovery of printing; and in 1832 he published a curious little volume of verses, entitled ''Les Morts Bizarres''. In those early days Legouvé brought out a succession of novels, of which ''Édith de Falsen'' enjoyed a considerable success. In 1847 he began the work by which he is best remembered, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Stuart (Schiller Play)
''Mary Stuart'' (, ) is a verse play by Friedrich Schiller that depicts the last days of Mary, Queen of Scots. The play consists of five acts, each divided into several scenes. The play had its première in Weimar, Germany on 14 June 1800. The play formed the basis for Gaetano Donizetti, Donizetti's opera ''Maria Stuarda'' (1835). Synopsis Mary Stuart is imprisoned in England — nominally for the murder of her husband Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Darnley, but actually due to her claim to the throne of England held by Queen Elizabeth I of England, Elizabeth I. While Mary's cousin, Elizabeth, hesitates over signing Mary's death sentence, Mary hopes for a reprieve. After Mary finds out that Mortimer (created by Schiller), the nephew of her custodian, is on her side, she entrusts her life to him. Mortimer is supposed to give Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester, a letter from Mary, in which she pleads for help. This is a delicate situation, fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Genoa
The University of Genoa () is a public research university. It is one of the largest universities in Italy and it is located in the city of Genoa, on the Italian Riviera in the Liguria region of northwestern Italy. The original university was founded in 1481. Campuses The University of Genoa is organized in several independent campuses located in different city areas: *The Balbi campus: includes the Rectorate, the central administration offices, the departments of Economics, Humanities, Philosophy, Languages, Law and Political Science; * The Sarzano campus: includes the departments of Education Sciences and Architecture; * The Albaro campus: comprises the departments of Engineering; * The Valletta Puggia campus: comprises the Departments of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry; * The San Martino campus: comprises the Departments of Medicine and Earth Sciences; Of great historical and artistic interest are the buildings in Via Balbi and in particular: the main university premises ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgio Capranica Del Grillo
Giorgio may refer to: * Castel Giorgio, ''comune'' in Umbria, Italy * Giorgio (name), an Italian given name and surname * Giorgio Moroder, or Giorgio, Italian record producer ** ''Giorgio'' (album), an album by Giorgio Moroder * "Giorgio" (song), a song by Lys Assia * Giorgio Bruno, a character from the video game ''Time Crisis 4'' * Giorgio Zott, the main antagonist from the video game ''Time Crisis 3'' * Giorgio Beverly Hills, a prestige fragrance brand See also * Georgios * Georgio (other) Georgio is a variant of George. It may refer to: Mononyms * Georgio (singer) (born 1966), full name Georgio Alentini, born George Allen. American singer, songwriter, and musician * Georgio (rapper) (born 1993), birth name Georges Édouard Nicolo, ... * San Giorgio (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daily Mercury
The ''Daily Mercury'' is an online newspaper which serves the Mackay, Queensland, Mackay region in Queensland, Australia. Print edition was later revived with a publication on Friday only. The newspaper is printed by Mackay Printing and Publishing and is owned by News Corp Australia. History The Daily Mercury ran from 1866 to 1905 as the ''Mackay Mercury and South Kennedy Advertiser''. From 1887 the paper was issued under the name ''Mackay Mercury'' until 1906 when the Mackay Daily Chronicle, ''Daily Chronicle'' was absorbed by the paper and it was renamed the ''Daily Mercury''. Along with many other regional Australian newspapers owned by NewsCorp, the Daily Mercury ceased print editions in June 2020 and became online-only publication. The print edition was revived in late August, 2021 as a weekly, Friday-only edition. Editors * ?? - May 2011: David Fisher * May 2011 - ??: Jennifer Pomfrett * ?? - ??: Jennifer Spilsbury * ?? - ??: Jon Ortlieb * November 2014 - ?? : ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allendale, Victoria
Allendale (aka Allandale) is a town in Victoria, Australia, located north-east of Creswick, in the Shire of Hepburn. At the , Allendale and the surrounding area had a population of 166. The town began as a mining settlement around the Berry Leads mining area. It had a peak population of about 1,500. Allendale once had ten hotels, railway station, post office, bakery, and shops, all of which have closed. The small boarding school located in Leishman Street was sold in 2005. Allendale Post Office opened on 6 May 1881, was known as Allandale from 1885 to 1893, and closed in 1974. Allendale Railway Station was on the North Creswick to Daylesford line. The railway closed in sections with Allendale to Newlyn Newlyn () is a seaside town and fishing port in south-west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 ''Land's End'' It is the largest fishing port in England. Newlyn lies on the shore of Mount's Bay and for ... closed on 1 December 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria, Australia
Victoria, commonly abbreviated as Vic, is a state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state (after Tasmania), with a land area of ; the second-most-populated state (after New South Wales), with a population of over 7 million; and the most densely populated state in Australia (30.6 per km2). Victoria's economy is the second-largest among Australian states and is highly diversified, with service sectors predominating. Victoria is bordered by New South Wales to the north and South Australia to the west and is bounded by the Bass Strait to the south (with the exception of a small land border with Tasmania located along Boundary Islet), the Southern Ocean to the southwest, and the Tasman Sea (a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean) to the southeast. The state encompasses a range of climates and geographical features from its temperate coastal and central regions to the Victorian Alps in the northeast and the semi-arid northwest. The majority of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduardo Majeroni
Eduardo Majeroni (1840 – 20 October 1891) was an actor who toured the world with Adelaide Ristori, playing popular Italian dramas in their original language. He and his wife Giulia, a niece of Ristori, left the company in Australia and carved out a career playing the same repertoire in English translations. Giulia was an actress, and their two sons Mario and George had acting careers in America. History Majeroni was born in Bergamo, the youngest of 17 children, and educated in Milan. His parents had visions of his becoming a civil engineer like his grandfather, who had a hand in building the fortress at Marghera, and enrolled him in a college in Milan. Majeroni however put more effort into the college's theatrical endeavors than course work, and when Count Cavour enlisted Napoleon III's aid to drive out the Austrians in 1859, he and his comrade Alexander Meschini abandoned study for the glamour of an artillery uniform. They saw little fighting; after the siege of Bologna, whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." Twain's novels include ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' (1876) and its sequel, ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel." He also wrote ''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'' (1889) and ''Pudd'nhead Wilson'' (1894) and cowrote ''The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today'' (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner. The novelist Ernest Hemingway claimed that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called ''Huckleberry Finn''." Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for both ''Tom Sawyer'' and ''Huckleberry Finn''. He served an apprenticeship with a printer early in his career, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Daily Alta California
The ''Alta California'' or ''Daily Alta California'' (often miswritten ''Alta Californian'' or ''Daily Alta Californian'') was a 19th-century San Francisco newspaper. ''California Star'' The ''Daily Alta California'' descended from the first newspaper published in the city, Samuel Brannan's ''California Star'', which debuted on January 9, 1847. Brannan, who had earlier assisted in publishing several Mormon newspapers in New York (state), New York, had brought a small press with him when he immigrated to California as part of a group of Mormon settlers in 1846 aboard ''The Brooklyn''. With Dr. E. B. Jones as editor, the ''California Star'' was the city's only newspaper until an older publication, ''The Californian (1840s newspaper), The Californian'', moved to Yerba Buena, California, Yerba Buena (as San Francisco was then called) from Monterey, California, Monterey in mid-1847. The city was about to undergo rapid changes as the California gold rush got underway. The ''Californ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paolo Giacometti
Paolo Giacometti (1816–1882) was an Italian dramatist born at Novi Ligure. He was educated in law at Genoa, but at the age of twenty had some success with his play ''Rosilda'' and then devoted himself to the stage. Depressed circumstances made him attach himself as author to various touring Italian companies, and his output was considerable; moreover, such actors as Adelaide Ristori, Ristori, Ernesto Rossi (actor), Rossi and Tommaso Salvini, Salvini made many of these plays great successes. Among the best of them were ''La Donna'' (1850), ''La Donna in seconde nozze'' (1851), ''Giuditta'' (1857), ''Sofocle'' (1860). ''La Morte civile'' (1861). A collection of his works was published at Milan in eight volumes (1859 et seq.). His ''Marie Antoinette'' was written expressly for Ristori, and first staged in New York. An English-language version of his ''Elizabeth, Queen of England'' was performed by Mary Gladstane at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne on 23 July 1870. Madame Ristori per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
