Tommaso salvini autobiography example

          In his autobiography, he writes that "when I perceived that some of Pasquino's lines were amusing the audience, I took courage, and, like a little bird making his first flight, I arrived at the goal, and was eager to try again It is certain that from that time I began to feel that I was somebody."..

          AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF. TOMMASO SALVINI.

        1. It was my great ambition to be allowed to walk alone in the city streets; my father was very loath to grant this boon, but he let me go sometimes, perhaps to.
        2. In his autobiography, he writes that "when I perceived that some of Pasquino's lines were amusing the audience, I took courage, and, like a little bird making his first flight, I arrived at the goal, and was eager to try again It is certain that from that time I began to feel that I was somebody.".
        3. The pages which now follow, taken from Salvini's Autobiography, are presented with the permission of his publishers, the Century Company, New York.–ED.].
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          5. Tommaso Salvini

          19th century Italian actor

          Tommaso Salvini

          Tommaso Salvini at the age of twenty-nine

          Born(1829-01-01)1 January 1829

          Milan, Italy

          Died31 December 1915(1915-12-31) (aged 86)

          Florence, Italy

          Tommaso Salvini (1 January 1829 – 31 December 1915) was an Italian actor.

          Life

          Salvini was born in Milan to parents who were both actors, his mother being the popular actress Guglielmina Zocchi.[1] Finding the boy had a talent for acting, his father organised tuition for him under Gustavo Modena, who took a liking to the boy.[1] His father was involved in the Bon and Berlaffa Company who were presenting Goldoni's Donne Curiose, and the actor who was to play the harlequin Pasquino fell ill.

          Instead of closing the theatre for the night his father asked the young Salvini to play the role. In his autobiography, he writes that "when I perceived that some of Pasquino's lines were amusing the audience, I took