Raffaele viviani massimo ranieri biography

Italian author, playwright, actor and musician (1888–1950)

Raffaele Viviani (10 January 1888 – 22 March 1950) was an Italian author, playwright, actor and musician.

Viviani belongs to the turn-of-the-century school of realism in Italian literature, and his works touch on seamier elements of the lives of the poor in Naples of that period, such as petty crime and prostitution. Critics have termed Viviani "an autodidact realist", meaning that he acquired his skills through personal experience and not academic education.

Magnifica interpretazione del grande Massimo Ranieri in "Viviani Varietà" al Teatro Politeama di Catanzaro - Regia di Maurizio Scaparro - Poesie.

Viviani appeared at age 4 on the stage, and by age 20 he had acquired a solid nationwide reputation as an actor and playwright. He also played in Budapest, Paris, Tripoli, and throughout South America during his career. His plays are in the "anti-Pirandello" style, less concerned with the psychology of people than with the lives they lead.

Viviani's best known-work is L'ultimo scugnizzo (The Last Urchin) (1931), scugnizzo being the und