person
Tommaso Salvini
Salvini
also: Сальвини
Italian tragedian (1829-1915) celebrated above all for his Othello; his European and American tours made him a byword for grand tragic acting in Chekhov's day.
Reading notes
- The Baron §1 Salvini
Tommaso Salvini (1829-1915), the celebrated Italian tragedian famous above all for his Othello, whose European and American tours made him a byword for grand tragic acting in Chekhov's day.
- To M. P. Chekhova, 17 March 1891. Petersburg. §5 Salvini
Tommaso Salvini (1829-1915), the celebrated Italian tragedian best known for his Othello; invoked ironically alongside the far lesser Solovtsov as equally capable, in the newspaper address Chekhov is mocking, of striking "a warm response in the hearts of the young."