Angelo Costantini

L'on peut dire sans hyperbole, que la nature, après l'avoir fait en cassa la moule.
One may say without exaggeration that, after making him, nature broke the mould.

Angelo Costantini (1655–1729) was an Italian actor of the commedia dell'arte. His La Vie de Scaramouche was a biography of Tiberio Fiorilli.

Quotes

• Voilà qui fut la fin du plus illustre Comédien qui ait jamais paru sur le Théâtre Italien; et l'on peut dire sans hyperbole, que la nature, après l'avoir fait en cassa le moule.
  • Thus ended the most illustrious comedian ever to appear on the Italian stage; and one may say without hyperbole that Nature, after having made him, broke the mould.
  • La Vie de Scaramouche (Paris, 1695) ch. 39, p. 245. See: Alexander Montgomerie

External links

• Angelo Costantini at Italian Wikipedia