Adriano Valerini Explained

Adriano Valerini (active circa 1560-died 1590s) was an Italian actor of Commedia dell'arte, active in Northern Italy.

He was born in Verona, and could read Latin and Greek. He was the head of a company of actors. In Milan, he fell under the censorship of Charles Borromeo.^[1] He has published a tragic play l'Afrodite, nearly one hundred madrigals, a funeral oration for the fellow comic and possible mistress Vincenza Armani,^[2] and the play Belleze di Verona.^[3] He was the father of Diana Ponti. The writer Flaminio Valerini was in his family.

References

• Book: Boni, Filippo de'. 1852. Biografia degli artisti ovvero dizionario della vita e delle opere dei pittori, degli scultori, degli intagliatori, dei tipografi e dei musici di ogni nazione che fiorirono da'tempi più remoti sino á nostri giorni. Prima Edizione.. 1042 . Presso Andrea Santini e Figlio. Venice; Googlebooks .

Notes and References

1. The Italian Comedy, by Pierre Louis Duchartre and Randolph T Weaver, 1928, page 78
2. Oratione D'Adriano Valerini Veronese, in morte della divina Signora Vincenza Armani, comica eccellentissima. Verona 1570.
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=ZNbvAAAAMAAJ Belleze di Verona