Francesco Albergati Capacelli

He was accused of murdering his second wife, Caterina Boccadabati, in a fit of jealousy, and he had to flee from Zola Predosa. He returned after several years during which lived in different cities. His third wife wasted most of his remaining fortune. But his passion for theatre encouraged him to write a series a number of works. He also translated a number of other important French works to Italian. He was also an avid writer who corresponded with a number of personalities including Carlo Goldoni, G. Compagnoni, Francesco Bertazzoli and Francesco Zacchiroli. He died in Zola Predosa,

• Le convulsioni (comedy in prose in one act) • Nuovo Teatro Comico (1774-1978), 5- volume series including • Le convulsioni • Il ciarlatano maldicente • Pregiudizi del falso onore • Novelle morali ad uso dei fanciulli (1779) • Il Saggio Amico, Commedia (1769) • Pasquale ossia Il postiglione burlato (a joint dramatic work with F. Malaspina, turned into a one-act drama by Filippo Pallavicino)

• Inès de Castro, drama from Antoine Houdar de la Motte • Il conte di Commingio, drama from François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d'Arnaud, translated in verse, Vérone, Stamperia Moroni, 1767 • Phèdre from Jean Racine

• Lettere piacevoli, se piaceranno (1792) to G. Compagnoni • Lettere varie (1793) to Francesco Bertazzoli. • Raccolta delle Lettere capricciose di Francesco Albergati Capacelli e di Francesco Zacchiroli dai medesimi capricciosamente stampate, Venice, 1786

The following is established of the heading itself.

On origins, the institutional record states the following. Born in 1728 at Bologna. Institutional cataloguing adds that francesco Albergati Capacelli died in 1804 at Zola Predosa.