' On Monday the first act was finished, on
Tuesday the second, etc.; and every act was delivered as it was written,
and the parts allotted. Sometimes the last act was only finished on
Saturday morning, which, however, would not prevent the piece being
played on Sunday evening." In a number of the _Revue des deux
Mondes_ for 1857 we found Saredo mentioned among the melodramatists
of Italy. This must have been ferreted out privately, since he always
wrote these melodramas anonymously, he having determined, with naive
conceit, "not to stain his future reputation." When he was twenty-one,
he tried to raise himself from this rank to that of a journalist, and
succeeded; he sent all sorts of articles to three newspapers. From his
twenty-first to his twenty-fourth year he wrote for the daily papers,
and wrote gay accounts of the volatile lives of young Italian
journalists with the ladies of the theatres. Then he fell in love with
the lady who later became his wife (known as a novelist under the
pseudonym of Ludovico de Rosa), and from that time forth never looked at
another woman. All his life he cherished a great admiration for his wife
and gratitude towards her.
When he had commenced his legal work, he strained every nerve to the
utmost, and obtained his professorships in the various towns through
competition, without having followed the usual University path.
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