She was born in Vigevano (Pavia), on 3 October 1858, into a family of wandering actors from Chioggia and, due to the nomadic nature of her parents' theatre company, received no education. A child of the art, she made her debut at a very young age (four years old) playing the role of Cosetta in a reduction of Victor Hugo's The Miserables staged in Chioggia.At the age of 12, she played her first starring role: she played Francesca da Rimini by Silvio Pellico, standing in for her ailing mother. Engaged permanently in the Compagnia Pezzana-Brunetti from 1878, she achieved her first great succ
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