Career
He provided the texts for several noted Italian operas, including Italo Montemezzi"s L"amore dei tre re and L"incantesimo, and Umberto Giordano"s Louisiana cena delle beffe, based on Benelli"s own play of the same title. He was a native of Prato. The play The Jester"s Supper was a great New York theatre success in 1919 under the title The Jest, starring Lionel and John Barrymore.
Ever since Pezzaglia carried on doing the same role again and again.
He wrote the screenplay for the 1942 film The Jester"s Supper based on his own famous play.