, 1874 – Rome

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, Italy, 1934) was a novelist

Novel

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 and a playwright

Playwright

A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...

 who was born in Italy.

He spent his youth in Buenos Aires; he met the french actress Rejane in 1900, became her secretary and translated and adapted for her several Italian works. In this way, he learned techniques which he used later on, beginning with L'aigrette (comedy in three acts, 1912).

His comedies represent the bourgeois drama

Drama

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 in an ironic and sentimental way, in which his characters are modelled on the society of the beginning of the century.

He founded a theater company in 1921, wrote novels (Il romanzo di scampolo) and two opera librettos

Libretto

A libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata, or musical. The term "libretto" is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as mass, requiem, and sacred cantata, or even the story line of a...

, a scampolo with music by Camussi, and another, La ghibellina, with music by Bianchi.

He has written several plays and screenplays, including Scampolo (film, 1928), La nemica, L'alba, il giorno, la notte, La maestrina (film, 1942). He carried out the first performance of Six Characters in Search of an Author

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Six Characters in Search of an Author is a play by the Italian writer Luigi Pirandello.The play is a satirical tragicomedy. It was first performed in 1921 at the Teatro Valle in Rome, to a very mixed reception, with shouts from the audience of "Manicomio!" .Subsequently the play enjoyed a much...

 by Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello was an Italian dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934, for his "bold and brilliant renovation of the drama and the stage." Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written...

 at Teatro Valle in Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

. Among his fans was Leo Tolstoy, who wrote to prefer La nemica by Niccodemi to Pirandello's dramas of and to Verga's novels.

Other works

• Teatrino, three one-act volumes

first volume includes:

• Lettera smarrita
• Il poeta
• Festa di beneficenza

second volume includes:

• Fricchi
• Le tre Grazie
• L'incognita

third volume includes:

• Scena vuota
• La pelliccia
• Natale.
• Tempo passato, con 17 ritratti
• Il rifugio, three-act play
• I Pescicani, three-act play
• L'ombra, three-act play
• Il Titano, three-act play
• Prete Pero, three-act play
• La volata, three-act play
• L'alba, il giorno, la notte, three-act play
• Acidalia, three-act play
• La casa segreta, three-act play
• La piccina, three-act play
• La Madonna, three-act play

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