Pezzaglia was the only daughter of the Very Important Person hair-stylist Gerolamo Pezzaglia. At the age of 4 she already enchanted her public in theatre, and she grew up as a popular actress, with the interpretation of more than 120 theatrical pieces in Italy, Swiss, Tunis, Spain and Egypt.
Her family name was Pezzaglia, although the variant spelling Pazzaglia is also found in some documents and sources. Her uncle was the actor and "capocomico" Angelo Pezzaglia, who induced her as a small child to start acting on stage. She was first star in the famous Ermete Zacconi"s "Compagnia", which was highly successful.
Antonio died in 1913, at 28.
In 1914 Pezzaglia played the character of Sofia in the film Il fornaretto di Venezia, directed by Luigi Maggi. In 1918 she was Biribì in the four-film serial movie Il mistero dei Montfleury.
In 1918 she performed also in Louisiana capanna dello zio Tom, directed by Riccardo Tolentino, and Le peripezie dell"emulo di Fortunello e compagni, directed by Cesare Zocchi Collani, playing the character of Madama Girasole. She was a nonconformist artist, playing also male or grotesque characters.
Great in the drama as in the comedy, she was an actress and a woman really forward-looking.
In 1920 she had a daughter, Anna, with the actor-producer Luigi (Luis) Mottura, 12 years younger, never getting married with him. In 1921 she was in the cast of Louisiana vendetta dello scemo, directed by Umberto Mucci. Pezzaglia continued acting on stage till the end of her short life, when, during a successful theatrical season, she died of pneumonia in Florence, at the age of 36.
She is resting in the Trespiano Cemetery, Florence, Italy.
And in 2013 the Pezzaglia-Greco Archive was declared "of historical interest particularly important" by the Italian Ministry of Heritage and Culture and Tourism.
Quotations: "of historical interest particularly important".
