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In esilio e sulla scena

Lettere di Lauretta Cipriani Parra, Giuseppe Montanelli e Adelaide Ristori

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Caterina Del Vivo
Gabinetto Scientifico Letterario G.P. Vieusseux, Italy

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DOI: 10.36253/978-88-6655-589-6 Series: Fonti storiche e letterarie – Edizioni cartacee e digitali ISSN 2704-5994 (print) - ISSN 2704-6001 (online)

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Adelaide Ristori: famous actress from a young age, destined to become the first great diva of the Italian theatre in Europe and in the Americas. Lauretta Cipriani: a passionate, brilliant and restless woman, as well as a a lover of poetry and art. Since her youth, she had been active in the political opposition, and became the partner (then the wife) of the much younger Giuseppe Montanelli, 'triumvir' of the Tuscan Temporary Government. Adelaide, engaged in incessant tours and courted by international society, was looking for a different idea of dramatic interpreter, which she considered the true core of any stage production. During Montanelli’s exile in Paris following the Restoration of the Great Duchy of Tuscany, she would request his literary skills for a text which would bear great importance for her future successes. In the appearance, Lauretta accepted subordinate and unusual roles for the love of her husband, but in reality she kept pursuing precise schemes to make him emerge in the glories of the Second Empire, and to pave the political path for their triumphant return to Italy in the future.

Giovane attrice già famosa, destinata a divenire la prima grande diva del teatro italiano in Europa come nelle Americhe, Adelaide Ristori. Donna appassionata, brillante e inquieta quanto amante della poesia e dell’arte, Lauretta Cipriani Parra, attiva fin dalla giovinezza nell’opposizione politica, compagna e poi moglie del tanto più giovane ‘triunviro’ del Governo provvisorio toscano, Giuseppe Montanelli. Adelaide, impegnata in incessanti tournée e corteggiata dalla società internazionale, è alla ricerca di una diversa idea dell’interprete drammatica, che considera il vero fulcro di ogni realizzazione scenica, e domanderà alle capacità letterarie di Montanelli, in esilio a Parigi dopo la Restaurazione granducale toscana, un testo chiave per i futuri successi. E se Lauretta sembra accettare ruoli subalterni e inusuali per amore del marito, persegue invece precise architetture per farlo emergere nei fasti del Secondo Impero e spianare la via politica per un prossimo, trionfante, ritorno nella Penisola.