Dario Niccodemi

Theater Company Niccodemi, after the play Fuochi d'artificio. Left to right, Marini, Rissone, Vera Vergani, Luigi Chiarelli, Armani, Luigi Almirante, Puccini, Luigi Cimara, Brizzolari and Dario Niccodemi. Actors are still wearing costumes.

Dario Niccodemi (27 January 1874 – 24 September 1934) was an Italian novelist and a playwright who was born in Italy.

Life and career He spent his youth in Buenos Aires; he met the French actress Rejane 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 with L'aigrette (comedy in three acts, 1912).

His comedies represent the bourgeois drama in an ironic and sentimental way, in which his characters are modelled on the society of the beginning of the century.

He founded a theater company in 1921, wrote novels (Il romanzo di scampolo) and two opera librettos, a scampolo with music by Camussi, and another, La ghibellina, with music by Bianchi.

He has written several plays and screenplays, including Scampolo (film, 1928), La nemica, L'alba, il giorno, la notte, La maestrina (film, 1942). About La nemica he said: "The actress Paola Pezzaglia was perhaps the best Nemica on stage". He carried out the first performance of Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello at Teatro Valle in Rome. Among his fans was Leo Tolstoy, who wrote to prefer La nemica by Niccodemi to Pirandello's dramas of and to Verga's novels.

Other works Teatrino, three one-act volumes first volume includes: Lettera smarrita Il poeta Festa di beneficenza second volume includes: Fricchi Le tre Grazie L'incognita third volume includes: Scena vuota La pelliccia Natale. Tempo passato, con 17 ritratti Il rifugio, three-act play I Pescicani, three-act play L'ombra, three-act play Il Titano, three-act play Prete Pero, three-act play La volata, three-act play L'alba, il giorno, la notte, three-act play Acidalia, three-act play La casa segreta, three-act play La piccina, three-act play La Madonna, three-act play