Italian theater and film actress. Lyda Borelli's sister, she was active in the silent film period but is known essentially for her theatrical activity. Daughter of art, her father Napoleone, a lawyer, belonged to an old family from Reggio Emilia, a volunteer from Garibaldi, had abandoned the profession for the stage. Her mother, Cesira Banti, also a theatrical actress, was the daughter of Major Banti, who died in Bologna on 8 August 1848 in the Montagnola park which was the scene of the uprisings for independence. In 1898 Borelli, after having attended the Scuola Normale in Bologna, entered as the second "amorosa" woman in the formation of Pia Marti Maggi and made her debut on the stage. She is a typical interpreter of bourgeois comedy, but ready to try her hand at the avant-garde dramaturgy of the time (Eugene O'Neill and Pier Maria Rosso di San Secondo among others), she became the wife of actor Alfredo De Sanctis. She acted, among others, with Lucio Ridenti, Enzo Biliotti, Tullio Carminati, Cesare Polacco, Ruggero Ruggeri, Carlo Tamberlani and Virgilio Talli and her repertoire includes the theatrical dramas of the main authors of her time, Giuseppe Giacosa, Gabriele D'Annunzio and Luigi Pirandello, above all (of the latter she was the interpreter in particular in 'Il ferro' and 'Parisina', ' La vita che ti diedi' and 'Vestire'.
Italian theater and film actress. Lyda Borelli's sister, she was active in the silent film period but is known essentially for her theatrical activity. Daughter of art, her father Napoleone, a lawyer, belonged to an old family from Reggio Emilia, a volunteer from Garibaldi, had abandoned the profession for the stage. Her mother, Cesira Banti, also a theatrical actress, was the daughter of Major Banti, who died in Bologna on 8 August 1848 in the Montagnola park which was the scene of the uprisings for independence. In 1898 Borelli, after having attended the Scuola Normale in Bologna, entered as the second "amorosa" woman in the formation of Pia Marti Maggi and made her debut on the stage. She is a typical interpreter of bourgeois comedy, but ready to try her hand at the avant-garde dramaturgy of the time (Eugene O'Neill and Pier Maria Rosso di San Secondo among others), she became the wife of actor Alfredo De Sanctis. She acted, among others, with Lucio Ridenti, Enzo Biliotti, Tullio Carminati, Cesare Polacco, Ruggero Ruggeri, Carlo Tamberlani and Virgilio Talli and her repertoire includes the theatrical dramas of the main authors of her time, Giuseppe Giacosa, Gabriele D'Annunzio and Luigi Pirandello, above all (of the latter she was the interpreter in particular in 'Il ferro' and 'Parisina', ' La vita che ti diedi' and 'Vestire'.
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