Abstract
This is the first systematic monograph on François Antoine Valentin Riccoboni (1707-1772), son of Luigi Riccoboni and Elena Balletti (Lelio and Flaminia): a dancer, actor, author and acting theorist, who played a major role on the (not only) French stage during the Enlightenment. Emanuele De Luca, a young scholar of Commedia dell’Arte and its eigtheen-century development, as well as of the Nouvelle Comédie Italienne, in recent years has published a study on Le Répertoire de la Comédie-Italienne de Paris (1716-1762) and a critical edition of Riccoboni le ls’s Art du Théâtre, with an italian translation. In this book, De Luca outlines a detailed and thorough fresco of the complex activity of an important – although neglected – innovator of the European stage, by placing great emphasis on documentary sources. What emerges is a well-rounded portrait, which my essay retraces, placing the figure of François within a broader historical and critical context, and so that little-known aspects of both the actor and his cultural milieu are revealed in a new light.
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