Federici, Camillo

Federici, Camillo

▪ Italian actor
original name  Giovanni Battista Viassolo  
born April 9, 1749, Garessio, Piedmont [Italy]
died Dec. 23, 1802, Padua [Italy], Austrian Empire

      Italian dramatist and actor, whose comedies were highly popular in the late 18th century.

      Federici was educated at Turin and showed at an early age a great fondness for literature and especially for the theatre. The praises bestowed on his early attempts determined his choice of a career, and he obtained engagements with several companies both as writer and actor. He married in 1777 and soon after left the stage and devoted himself entirely to composition. He settled at Padua, and the reputation of his numerous comedies rapidly spread in Italy and, for a time, seemed to eclipse that of his predecessors. Most of his pieces were somewhat melodramatic, but he caught something of the new spirit that was manifesting itself in German dramatic literature in the works of Friedrich von Schiller and August von Kotzebue.

      Federici found a helpful friend in a wealthy merchant of Padua, Francis Barisan, for whose private theatre he wrote many pieces. He was attacked in 1791 with an illness that disabled him for several years; and he had the misfortune to see his works, in the absence of any copyright law, published by others without his permission. In 1802 he undertook to prepare a collected edition, but only four volumes were completed by the time of his death.

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