Antoine-François Riccoboni (1707 – 15 May 1772)[1] was an Italian actor of the Comédie-Italienne in Paris, whose stage name was Lélio fils.
[2] He was born Antonio Francesco Valentino Riccoboni[3] in Mantua.
[1] His father was the celebrated actor Luigi Riccoboni, who became the director of the Comédie-Italienne in Paris in 1716, and his mother was the actress Elena Balletti (1686–1771).
[4] In addition to several pieces of verse, a Satire sur le goût, le Conte sans R, and some other poems, Antoine-François Riccoboni wrote a great number of comedies of which the best, Les Caquets, in three acts in prose, translated or imitated[5] from Carlo Goldoni, was successfully revived at the Théâtre Louvois in 1802.
He wrote more than 50 comedies in French including: He also authored a treatise L'art du théâtre, published in 1750.