Dario Niccodemi | |
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| Born | 1874 Livorno, Italy |
| Died | 1934 (aged 59–60) Rome, Italy |
| Occupation(s) | novelist andplaywright |
Dario Niccodemi (27 January 1874 – 24 September 1934) was an Italian novelist and a playwright who was born in Italy.
He spent his youth in Buenos Aires; he met the French actressRejane in 1900, became her secretary and translated and adapted for her several Italian works. In this way, he learned techniques which he used later on, beginning withL'aigrette (comedy in three acts, 1912).
His comedies represent thebourgeois drama in an ironic and sentimental way, in which his characters are modelled on the society of the beginning of the century.
He founded atheater company in 1921, wrote novels (Il romanzo di scampolo) and two operalibrettos, ascampolo with music by Camussi, and another,La ghibellina, with music by Bianchi.
He has written several plays and screenplays, includingScampolo (film, 1928),La nemica,L'alba, il giorno, la notte,La maestrina (film, 1942). AboutLa nemica he said: "The actressPaola Pezzaglia was perhaps the best Nemica on stage". He carried out the first performance ofSix Characters in Search of an Author byLuigi Pirandello at Teatro Valle in Rome. Among his fans was Leo Tolstoy, who wrote to preferLa nemica by Niccodemi to Pirandello's dramas of and to Verga's novels.[1]
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