Gustavo Modena

Gustavo Modena (born January 13, 1803 in Venice , † February 20, 1861 in Turin ) was an Italian stage actor and patriot .

Life

The son of the actor couple Giacomo Modena and Maria Luisa (née Lancetti) first graduated from the Lyceum in Verona . From 1818 Gustavo studied law at the University of Padua . In 1820 he was wounded in physical confrontations with the police. It was about the protest against the ban on rehearsals for the opera Fedra . In June 1821 Modena completed his studies in Bologna , worked in a law firm and received the title of lawyer in 1824.

Modena gave up his profession and made his debut in several Italian cities as David in Vittorio Alfieris Saul . In the autumn of 1829 Modena went into business for herself and played Silvio Pellico's Francesca da Rimini in Padua . When the city of Bologna successfully rebelled against the papal restoration in 1831 - the Austrians had to leave their garrison - the revolutionary Modena emigrated to Marseille after the overthrow of the Provisional Government of the United Provinces of Italy . As a follower of Mazzini , he wrote there for Young Italy . In 1833 Modena met Julia Calame from Bern in Switzerland , whom he married in 1835. In the same year he went to Brussels via Strasbourg , lived there with his wife until 1838 and then appeared in London as an interpreter of the Divine Comedy .

Amnestied by Ferdinand I , Modena returned to Italy in 1839. With his adaptations to the Divine Comedy he was constantly at war with the Italian censorship - for example that of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany . From 1843 he toured Padua, Milan , Venice, Rovigo and Trieste with a new group of actors . Modena gave the aforementioned Saul and Schiller's Wallenstein and Manzonis Adelgis .

After the defeat of the revolutionary uprisings in 1848 and 1849, Modena lived in Liguria and died in Turin of pleurisy .

literature

Gustavo Modena: Gustavo Modena - politica e arte - epistolario con biografia, 1833–1861 . Rome 1888 (Italian, archive.org - Politics and Art. Letters 1833–1861).
Modena, Gustavo . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 18 : Mekaniker – Mycale . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1913, Sp. 780-781 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
Silvio D'Amico: Modena, Gustavo. In: Enciclopedia Italiana di scienze, lettere ed arti . 1934 (Italian, treccani.it ).
Ricarda Huch : The stories of Garibaldi . With an afterword by Günter Adler. 683 pages. Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1986, ISBN 3-7351-0006-6 .
Patrizia Guarnieri: Modena, Gustavo (1876-1958). In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 75: Miranda – Montano. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2011, This refers to another Gustavo Modena who was born on August 21, 1876, how does he fit in here?
Arianna Arisi Rota: Modena, Gustavo. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 75: Miranda – Montano. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2011.

Web links

Commons : Gustavo Modena - collection of images, videos and audio files

Modena, Gustavo. In: Enciclopedie on line. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome.
37 entries in the Opac des Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale on October 13, 2016 under Modena, Gustavo <1803-1861>
Gustavo Modena in freemaurer-wiki.de
Gustavo Modena at thefreedictionary.com, taken from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia , 3rd edition 1979 (History of West European Theater. Volume 3, Moscow 1963)
Gustavo Modena at Oxford Reference

annotation

↑ The historian Ricarda Huch be in the first part of their stories of Garibaldi Modena in Rome during the short-lived Roman Republic repeatedly occur. The actor knows his way around portraying kings. These are actors (Huch, p. 76, middle). On June 13, 1849, Mazzini, Pisacane and Modena were still enjoying a puppet play in the middle of oppressed Rome, and just two weeks later General Oudinot put an end to the Roman Republic. (Huch, p. 223 middle –228)

Individual evidence

^ Carlo Agliati: Modena, Gustavo. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . June 4, 2008, accessed March 12, 2020 .
^ Silvio D'Amico: Modena, Gustavo. In: Enciclopedia Italiana di scienze, lettere ed arti . 1934 (Italian, treccani.it ).

personal data
SURNAME	Modena, Gustavo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian stage actor and patriot
DATE OF BIRTH	January 13, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH	Venice
DATE OF DEATH	February 20, 1861
Place of death	Turin

[A1-3] The historian Ricarda Huch be in the first part of their stories of Garibaldi Modena in Rome during the short-lived Roman Republic repeatedly occur. The actor knows his way around portraying kings. These are actors (Huch, p. 76, middle). On June 13, 1849, Mazzini, Pisacane and Modena were still enjoying a puppet play in the middle of oppressed Rome, and just two weeks later General Oudinot put an end to the Roman Republic. (Huch, p. 223 middle –228)

[1] Carlo Agliati: Modena, Gustavo. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . June 4, 2008, accessed March 12, 2020 .

[2] Silvio D'Amico: Modena, Gustavo. In: Enciclopedia Italiana di scienze, lettere ed arti . 1934 (Italian, treccani.it ).