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Check Out My Other Items !!I Combine Shipping on Multiple Item Orders !!Tommaso Salvini (1 January 1829 – 31 December 1915) was an Italian actor.
Salvini fought in the First Italian War of Independence in 1849, but otherwise devoted his life to acting.In 1853, however, he took a year off because \"he rarely felt adequately prepared for a role\".[2] During this time, he prepared roles in great depth.
1865 was the 600th anniversary of Dante\'s birth, and as part of the celebrations Florence invited four of Italy\'s greatest actors—Ristori, Rossi, Salvini and Majeroni—to play in Silvio Pellico\'s Francesca di Rimini, which is based on an incident in La Divina Commedia. Rossi, who was to play the part of Lancelotto, felt himself ill-suited to the smaller part and Salvini, who had the grand role of Paolo, graciously exchanged with him, and made a memorable performance of it. Grateful for his display of urbanity, the government of Florence presented Salvini with a statuette of Dante.[1]
Salvini\'s most famous role was Othello, which he played for the first time at Vicenza in June 1856. His other important roles included Conrad in Paolo Giacometti\'s La Morte civile, Egisto in Alfieri\'s Merope, Saul in Alfieri\'s Saul, Paolo in Silvio Pellico\'s Francesca da Rimini, Oedipus in Niccolini\'s play of that name, Macbeth and King Lear.[3] The core of his acting method came from his studies. While visiting Gibraltar, for example, he spent time studying the Moors and found one particular man whom he based his Othello on. Instead of relying on a mustache, which was the traditional way of depicting a Moor, he tried to copy \"gestures, movements, and carriage\" to depict the character.[2]
Salvini acted frequently in England, and made five visits to the United States, his first in 1873 and his last in 1889. In 1886, he played Othello to the Iago of Edwin Booth.[3] He always delivered his lines in Italian while the rest of the company spoke English (except during his first tour, when he had an Italian company). According to the New York World (27 October 1885), \"had he spoke Greek or Chocaw, it would have been much the same. There was that about him that was universal, and had he remained mute and contented himself with acting alone his audience could scarcely have failed to understand, so faithful was his portraiture of human instincts and their action\"[4]
Salvini\'s acting in Othello greatly inspired the young Russian actor Constantin Stanislavski, who saw Salvini perform in Moscow in 1882 and who would, himself, go on to become one of the most important theatre practitioners in the history of theatre. Stanislavski wrote that Salvini was the \"finest representative\" of his own approach to acting.[5]