Career

He began his career playing the role of the unsophisticated love-stricken young manitoba Later he played the role of Capitan Spavento ("Captain Fright"), a Pickwickian character of excessive fatigue

Andreini was born at Pistoia.

Achievements

• Francesco Andreini was an Italian actor of commedia dell’arte who, with his wife, Isabella Andreini, was a founder and star performer of the Compagnia dei Gelosi, one of the earliest and most famous of commedia dell’arte troupes.

Membership

He was a member of the company of i Gelosi which Henry IV of France summoned to Paris to his bride, the young queen Marie de Medici, thus introducing the commedia dell"arte style to France.

Connections

Spouse:

Isabella Andreini

(Padua, 1562 – 10 June 1604)

Son:

Giambattista Andreini

(9 February 1576 – 7 June 1654)

References

• Biografia Degli Artisti V1, Part 1 (1840) (Italian Edition)