Francesco Andreini
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Francesco Andreini (c. 1548 – 1624) was an Italian actor mainly of commedia dell'arte plays. He began his career playing the role of the unsophisticated love-stricken young man. Later he played the role of Capitan Spavento ("Captain Fright"), a Pickwickian character of excessive fatigue[1]
Life
Andreini was born at Pistoia. He was a member of the company of i Gelosi which Henry IV of France summoned to Paris to his bride, the young queen Marie de Medici, thus introducing the commedia dell'arte style to France.[2]
Both his wife, Isabella Andreini, and their son, Giambattista Andreini, were also distinguished in the arts.
Notes
- ↑ Boni, F., page 9
- ↑ Chisholm 1911.
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