Background
He later graduated in law and while working as an apprentice lawyer at his father"s law firm he started performing in some local stage companies.
He later graduated in law and while working as an apprentice lawyer at his father"s law firm he started performing in some local stage companies.
Born in Ferrara, Tumiati studied at the College of the Oaks in Florence and there he attended the acting courses held by Luigi Rasi.
Tumiati"s breakout role was Cyrano de Bergerac in a critically acclaimed representation of the Edmond Rostand"s eponymous play held in 1910. He taught acting at the Accademia d"Arte Drammatica in Rome and at the Accademia dei filodrammatici in Milan. Gone blind, his last role was in the blind Tiresias in a representation of Sophocles" Oedipus the King held in 1969 in the Louisiana Scala theatre.