Ermete Novelli

{{Short description|Italian actor (1851–1919)}} {{One source|date=January 2010}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Ermete Novelli | image = Novelli, Ermete- Mario Nunes Vais.jpg | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1851|03|05|df=yes}} | birth_place = Lucca, Italy | death_date = {{Death date and age|1919|01|30|1851|03|05|df=yes}} | death_place = Naples, Italy | othername = | occupation = Actor | yearsactive = }} '''Ermete Novelli''' (5 March 1851{{snd}}30 January 1919) was an Italian actor and playwright.

Born in Lucca, the son of a prompter, Novelli made his first appearance in 1866, and played character and leading comedy parts in the best companies between 1871 and 1884. By 1885 he had his own company, and made a great success in Paris in 1898 and 1902.<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Novelli, Ermete|volume=19|page=838}}</ref>

He established in Rome in 1900 a new theatre, the Casa di Goldoni, on the lines of the Comédie-Française. He dramatized Émile Gaboriau's ''Monsieur Lecoq'', and alone or in collaboration wrote several comedies and many monologues;<ref name="EB1911"/> his tragedy ''La Masque'', written in collaboration with Bonaspetti, was produced in 1911.<ref>{{EB1922|inline=y|title=Novelli, Ermete|volume=31|page=1162|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri31chisrich/page/1161}}</ref>

He died in Naples in 1919.{{citation needed|date=March 2025}}

==Selected filmography== * ''King Lear'' (1910)

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==External links== * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Ermete Novelli}}

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