Pamela: una donna goldoniana in Russia con Eleonora Duse

In Venice (Casa Goldoni Library) there is a libretto with a summary of Pamela maiden, which was deliberately prepared for the representation of Eleonora Duse in St. Petersburg, on 11th April 1891. It was printed by the publisher V. K. Travsky – with approval of the Russian censorship issued on 13th March 1891 – at the Typography of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in limited edition. It was created by an anonymous Russian man of letters to help the public in the comprehension of the plot of the comedy, because the actors played using Italian language. This essay presents the first annotated Italian translation of this libretto, and a reflection about Duse’s first tour in Russia – with particular attention to the diffusion process “outside” the Italian boundaries of this Goldoni’s comedy, which was in her repertory “inside” the national territory since 1880.