Note, Alberto

Alberto Nota ( Italian: Alberto Nota ; November 15, 1775 , Turin - April 18, 1847 , ibid.) - Italian playwright, librarian and magistrate.

He graduated from the University of Turin , where he studied at the Faculty of Law, at the age of 18 he received a doctorate in both rights; during the Napoleonic occupation of Italy was a magistrate. He began to write plays for the theater even before he became the head of the court in Vercelli , - even in the gymnasium he composed small plays that were performed by his comrades. After the Restoration (1814), he was forbidden to hold public or judicial posts, as a result of which he resigned and for some time was secretary and librarian with Prince de Carignan, later King Carl Albert , but he also lost this place because of free thought. In 1818 he received the post of assistant governor in Nice and Bobbio Pellice , then in San Remo , later governor in the province of Pinerolo and Casale Monferrato in Cuneo .

It is considered one of the main figures in the revival of Italian comedy; in his work, critics noted the strong influence of Carlo Goldoni . In total, he wrote about 40 plays, mainly related to the subgenre of the so-called “ tearful comedy ”. According to the ESBE , "despite some reasonableness of his plays, which impedes the naturalness of comism, and the weakness of action, they are excellent in character portrayals and the originality of scenic positions." The most famous plays: “I primi passi al mal costume” (1808), “Il progettista”, “Il nuovo ricco” (1809); “L'anunalatto in imaginazione” (imitation of Moliere , 1813), “La fiera” (1826), “La race domestica”, “La vedova in solitudine”; "Il filosofo celibe" (1811). His collected works were published in Turin in 1823, in Florence in 1827, in Paris in 1839.