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Adriano Valerini (active circa 1560-died 1590s) was an Italian actor of Commedia dell'arte, active in Northern Italy.

He was born in Verona, and could read Latin and Greek. He was the head of a company of actors. In Milan, he fell under the censorship of Charles Borromeo. He has published a tragic play l'Afrodite, nearly one hundred madrigals, a funeral oration for the fellow comic and possible mistress Vincenza Armani, and the play Belleze di Verona. He was the father of Diana Ponti. The writer Flaminio Valerini was in his family.

References

• Boni, Filippo de' (1852). Biografia degli artisti ovvero dizionario della vita e delle opere dei pittori, degli scultori, degli intagliatori, dei tipografi e dei musici di ogni nazione che fiorirono da'tempi più remoti sino á nostri giorni. Prima Edizione.. Venice; Googlebooks: Presso Andrea Santini e Figlio. p. 1042.

1. The Italian Comedy, by Pierre Louis Duchartre and Randolph T Weaver, 1928, page 78
2. Oratione D'Adriano Valerini Veronese, in morte della divina Signora Vincenza Armani, comica eccellentissima. Verona 1570.
3. Belleze di Verona

• Male actors from Verona
• Italian male stage actors
• Commedia dell'arte
• 16th-century Italian male actors