Francesco Albergati Capacelli (19 April 1728 – 16 March 1804) was an Italian writer and playwright. Albergati was born in

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, where he was a

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and

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and an important administrator. He led a stormy personal life and was married three times. He was accused of murdering his second wife, Caterina Boccadabati, in a fit of jealousy, and he had to flee from

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. He returned after several years during which lived in different cities. His third wife wasted most of his remaining fortune. But his passion for theatre encouraged him to write a series a number of works. He also translated a number of other important French works to Italian. He was also an avid writer who corresponded with a number of personalities including

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, G. Compagnoni, Francesco Bertazzoli and Francesco Zacchiroli. He died in

Works

*''Le convulsioni'' (comedy in prose in one act) *''Nuovo Teatro Comico'' (1774-1978), 5- volume series including **''Le convulsioni'' **''Il ciarlatano maldicente'' **''Pregiudizi del falso onore'' *''Novelle morali ad uso dei fanciulli'' (1779) *''Il Saggio Amico, Commedia'' (1769) *''Pasquale ossia Il postiglione burlato'' (a joint dramatic work with F. Malaspina, turned into a one-act drama by Filippo Pallavicino)

Translations from French

*'' Inès de Castro'', drama from Antoine Houdar de la Motte *''Il conte di Commingio'', drama from

François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d'Arnaud François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d'Arnaud (8 September 1718 – 8 November 1805) was a French writer, playwright, poet and novelist. His series of novellas ''Les Épreuves du sentiment'' inspired Bellini's opera '' Adelson e Salvini''. Wor ...

, translated in verse, Vérone, Stamperia Moroni, 1767 *''

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'' from

Jean Racine Jean-Baptiste Racine ( , ; ; 22 December 1639 – 21 April 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille, as well as an important literary figure in the Western tr ...

Letters

*''Lettere piacevoli, se piaceranno'' (1792) to G. Compagnoni *''Lettere varie'' (1793) to Francesco Bertazzoli. *''Raccolta delle Lettere capricciose di Francesco Albergati Capacelli e di Francesco Zacchiroli dai medesimi capricciosamente stampate'', Venice, 1786

Notes and references

*Enrico Mattioda, ''Il dilettante per mestiere: Francesco Albergati Capacelli commediografo'', Bologna, Il Mulino, 1993, (thesis). *Marina Vecchi Calore, ''Alcuni aspetti della personalità di Francesco Albergati Capacelli'', in "Il teatro italiano in Europa", Firenze, Olschki, 1985. *John A. Rice
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