Editing Eleonora Duse (section)

=== Early life ===
Duse was born in [[Vigevano]], [[Lombardy]], Austrian Empire, in 1858 to Alessandro Vincenzo Duse (1820–1892) and Angelica Cappelletto (1833–1906).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Woodhouse |first=John Robert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kN4-4FRNNfIC&pg=PA141 |title=Gabriele D'Annunzio: Defiant Archangel |date=2001 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-818763-9 |pages=141 |language=en |quote=Eleonora had been born into poverty on 3 October 1858 in Vigevano, a small town in Lombardy , the daughter of strolling players , Vincenzo Duse and Angelica Cappelletto .}}</ref> Lombardy would be taken from Austrian control the year after her birth by forces under the [[Kingdom of Sardinia]], and would form part of the new [[Kingdom of Italy]] when she was about 3. Venice and some surrounding areas would remain part of the Austrian Empire until she was about 8.

Both her father and her grandfather, Luigi, were actors from [[Chioggia]], near [[Venice]], and she joined the troupe at age four.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} Due to poverty, she initially worked continually, traveling from city to city with whichever troupe her family was currently engaged. She came to fame in Italian versions of roles made famous by [[Sarah Bernhardt]], such as ''[[The Lady of the Camellias|La Dame aux camélias]]''.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}<ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3051521 "Signora Duse at the Lyric Theatre"], ''[[The West Australian]]'', 14 August 1893, pg. 6</ref>