Jump to content

Teodora Ricci-Bàrtoli

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Aciram (talk | contribs) at 16:36, 3 October 2016 (added Category:18th-century Venetian people using HotCat). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Teodora Ricci-Bàrtoli (Verona 1750 - Venezia 1806), was a Venetian actress.

She was the student of Francesco Bartoli, whom she married in 1769. She was the leading lady of the Venetian stage. One of her best known part was the main part of La principessa filosofa by Carlo Gozzi. Between 1777 and 1782, she was engaged at the Théâtre Italien in Paris.

In 1775, she was involvemed in the Gratarol affair regarding secretary of state Antonio Gratarolo. In 1772, Gratarolo had defeated Caterina Dolfins own candidate for the post of ambassador to Savoy. Upon his return to Venice in 1775, he had an affair with Teodora, which made him a rival of Dolfin's friend, who wrote a libelous play about Gratarolo: this caricature was answer with another, which caricatured Dolfin and her circle and blackened her name and reputation publicly.

References