Gerolamo Rovetta

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Gerolamo Rovetta (November 30, 1851 – May 8, 1910) was an Italian writer and playwright.

Biography

Born in Brescia, Rovetta was the author of novels and short stories as well of stage plays and dramas. His first novel was Mater dolorosa (1882), a novel set in the world of the nobles that achieved a considerable popular success.[1]

He is also well known for the drama Romanticismo, whose success was partly dued to its patriotic content;[1] it was later adaptated in a film with the same name directed by Clemente Fracassi and starred by Amedeo Nazzari and Clara Calamai.[2] In theatre Romanticismo and I disonesti found in Paola Pezzaglia an ideal interpreter.

Close to verismo,[3] his works represent the Lombard political and the bourgeoisie of the time, and show the disillusionment for the failure of the ideals of the Risorgimento.[4]

Rovetta committed suicide in 1910, leaving an unfinished novel.[1]

Works

Novels and short stories

  • Mater dolorosa (novel, 1882)
  • Ninnoli (short stories, 1882)
  • Sott'acqua (novel, 1883)
  • Il processo Montegù (novel, 1884)
  • Tiranni minimi (short stories, 1886)
  • Baby (1886)
  • Le lacrime del prossimo (1888)
  • I Barbarò (novel, 1890)
  • Il primo amante (novel, 1892)
  • La Baraonda (novel, 1894)
  • Il tenente dei Lancieri (novel, 1896)
  • L'idolo (novel, 1898)
  • La Signorina (1900)
  • Casta Diva (1903)
  • La moglie di Sua Eccellenza (1904)
  • Cavalleria assassina (1904)
  • Cinque minuti di riposo! (1912)

Theatre

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Commemorative plaque of Rovetta
  • Un volo dal nido (1877)
  • La Moglie di Don Giovanni (1877)
  • In Sogno (1878)
  • Collera cieca! (1878)
  • Gli Uomini pratici (1879)
  • Scellerata! (1882)
  • La Contessa Maria (1883)
  • La Trilogia di Dorina (1891)
  • Alla Città di Roma (1891)
  • Marco Spada (1892)
  • La Cameriera nova (1893)
  • I Disonesti (1894)
  • La Baraonda (1894)
  • Madame Fanny (1895)
  • La Realtà (1895)
  • Principio di Secolo (1897)
  • Il ramo d'Ulivo (1899)
  • Il Poeta (1899)
  • La Moglie giovine (1899)
  • Romanticismo (1901)
  • Le due coscienze (1901)
  • Il Re Burlone (1905)
  • Il Giorno della Cresima (1906)
  • Papà Eccellenza (1908)
  • Molière e sua Moglie (1911)

References

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