Lucrezia Di Siena

Lucrezia Di Siena (fl. 1564), was a stage actress active in Rome and other locations in the Italian peninsula. [1][2] She is known as one of the first, and possibly the very first, identified female actor in Europe since antiquity; at the very least, she is believed to have been the first woman in Europe to sign a theatrical contract.[3]

  1. ^ Mirella Schino, Dodici schede sul teatro italiano in Glynne Wickham, Storia del Teatro, Il Mulino, Bologna 1988
  2. ^ Bellavitis, Anna (2018-01-11). Il lavoro delle donne nelle città dell'Europa moderna. Viella Libreria Editrice. ISBN 978-88-6728-955-4.
  3. ^ Kerr, Rosalind (2015-01-01). The Rise of the Diva on the Sixteenth-Century Commedia dell'Arte Stage. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-4426-4911-8.