Elisa Severi
{{Short description|Italian actress (1872–1930)}}
Elisa Severi (6 April 1872 – 26 August 1930) was an Italian actress.
Early life
Elisa Severi was born in Ravenna. She trained as an actress in Rome, where she debuted in the 1889-1890 season.[https://collezioni.genusbononiae.it/products/dettaglio/24207# "Elisa Severi"], Museo della Città di Bologna.
Career
Elisa Severi started as a stage actress. She joined the Drammatica Compagnia Palladini-Talli in 1894, and headed a company with Oreste Calabresi for the 1905-1906 season, with Mercedes Brignone as one of the company's other actresses.[https://books.google.com/books?id=xZlXHDePRJAC&dq=%22Elisa%20Severi%22&pg=PA587 "La Compagnia Calabresi-Severi"] Musica e musicisti (15 Settembre 1905): 587-590. and became a member of Ettore Berti's Compagnia Stabile Romana in 1912.Guido Noccioli, [https://books.google.com/books?id=1VDqTLd4yCQC&dq=Elisa+Severi+actress&pg=PA170 Duse on Tour: Guido Noccioli's Diaries, 1906-1907] (University of Massachusetts Press 1982): 60, 154, 170. {{ISBN|9780870233692}} A reviewer of her stage work called her "una splendida creatura vibrante di passione sentida" (a splendid creature vibrating with sentimental passion).[https://books.google.com/books?id=3J4ZAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Elisa+Severi%22&pg=PA16-IA12 "Sannazaro"] La Maschera (January 13, 1907): 10.
Severi appeared in twenty silent films between 1913 and 1921, among them La corsa all'amore (1914), La contessa Fedra (1914), Circe moderna (1914), Il bacio di sirena (1915), Redemption (1919), Dopo il suicidio (1920), L'erma biffronte (1920), On with the Motley (1920), and Sublime rinuncia (1921).
Personal life
Severi had a son, editor and translator Giorgio Monicelli (1910-1968), whose father was journalist Tomaso Monicelli. Her son coined the Italian word fantascienza for the science fiction magazine Urania.Giulia Iannuzzi, [https://www.openstarts.units.it/bitstream/10077/15339/1/Nuclear_Italy-12-Iannuzzi.pdf "Italian Science Fiction, Nuclear Technologies: Narrative Strategies between the 'Two Cultures' (1950s-1970s)"] in Elisabetta Bini, Igor Londero, eds., Nuclear Italy. An International History of Italian Nuclear Policies during the Cold War (EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste 2017): 186. {{ISBN|9788883038129}} She died in Rome in 1930, aged 58 years. A park in Ravenna is named for Elisa Severi.[http://www.ravennanotizie.it/articoli/2013/12/a-ravenna-arriva-piazza-anna-magnani.-e-altri-28-nuovi-nomi-per-aree-verdi-del-comune.html "A Ravenna arriva piazza Anna Magnani. E altri 28 nuovi nomi per aree verdi del Comune"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181005112008/http://www.ravennanotizie.it/articoli/2013/12/a-ravenna-arriva-piazza-anna-magnani.-e-altri-28-nuovi-nomi-per-aree-verdi-del-comune.html |date=2018-10-05 }} Ravenna Notizie (11 December 2013).
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External links
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Category:19th-century Italian actresses
Category:Italian silent film actresses