Antonio Ghislanzoni

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Antonio Ghislanzoni

Antonio Ghislanzoni (25 November 1824 – July 16 1893) was an Italian

Italy

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journalist

Journalist

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, poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
, and novelist who wrote librettos for Verdi

Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic music composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers in the 19th century....
, among other composers, of which the best known are Aida
Aida

Aida an Arabic female name meaning "visitor" or "returning") is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, based on a scenario written by French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette ....
and the revised version of La forza del destino
La forza del destino

La forza del destino is an Italian opera by Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on a Spanish drama, Don ?lvaro, o La fuerza del sino , by ?ngel de Saavedra, Duke of Rivas, with a scene adapted from Friedrich Schiller's Wallensteins Lager....
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Ghislanzoni was born in Lecco

Lecco

Lecco is city of c. 47,000 inhabitants in Lombardy, northern Italy, north of Milan, the capital of the province of Lecco. It lies at the end of the south-eastern branch of Lake Como ....
, Lombardy

Lombardy

Lombardy is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan. One-sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy and about one fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in this region....
, and studied briefly in a seminary, but was expelled for bad conduct in 1841.

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Antonio Ghislanzoni (25 November 1824 – July 16 1893) was an Italian

Italy

Journalist

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
, and novelist who wrote librettos for Verdi

Giuseppe Verdi

Lecco

Lombardy

Pavia

Pavia , the ancient Ticinum, is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy, northern Italy, 35 km south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po River....
, but abandoned this after a short time to pursue a singing career as a baritone

Baritone

Baritone is a type of European classical music male voice type that lies between the bass and tenor voices. It is the most common male voice....
and to cultivate his literary interests.

In 1848, stimulated by the nationalist ideas of Mazzini

Giuseppe Mazzini

Giuseppe Mazzini , the "Soul of Italy," was an Italian patriot, philosopher and politician. His efforts helped bring about the modern Italian state in place of the several separate states, many dominated by foreign powers, that existed until the 19th century....
, Ghislanzoni founded several republican newspapers in Milan

Milan

Milan is the second largest city of Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. It is the capital in the Province of Milan, as well as the Regions of Italy capital of Lombardy....
but eventually had to take refuge in Switzerland

Switzerland

Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
. While travelling to Rome, where he wanted to help defend the nascent republic, Ghislanzoni was arrested by the French and briefly detained in Corsica

Corsica

Corsica is the Mediterranean islands#By area in the Mediterranean Sea . It is located west of Italy, southeast of the France mainland, and north of the island of Sardinia....
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In the mid-1850s, foresaking the stage, Ghislanzoni became intensvely active in journalism in the bohemian

Bohemianism

The term bohemian, of French origin, was first used in the English language in the nineteenth century to describe the untraditional lifestyles of marginalized and impoverished artists, writers, musicians, and actors in major European cities....
circles of Milan, serving as director of Italia musicale and editor of the Gazzetta musicale di Milano. He also founded L'uomo di pietra the magazine Rivista minima, collaborating with, among others, Arrigo Boito

Arrigo Boito

Arrigo Boito , aka Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito, pseudonym Tobia Gorrio, was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist and composer, best known today for his opera libretto and his own opera, Mefistofele....
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In 1869, Ghislanzoni retired from journalism and returned to his native Lombardy, where he dedicated himself to literature and writing libretti for operas. He wrote many short stories in verse and diverse novels including Un suicidio a fior d'acqua (1864), Angioli nelle tenebre (1865), La contessa di Karolystria (1883), Abracadabra and Storia dell'avvenire (1884). His novel of theatrical life Gli artisti da teatro, (1865), was republished into the 20th century. He also published musical essays, the most important being Reminiscenze artistiche.

Ghislanzoni wrote some eighty-five libretti, including Edmea for Catalani

Alfredo Catalani

Alfredo Catalani , was an Italian operatic composer. He is best remembered for his operas Loreley and La Wally , which was written to a libretto by Luigi Illica and features Catalani's most famous aria "Ebben? Ne andr? lontana"....
(1866), Aida (1870), Fosca (1873) and Salvator Rosa (1874) for Gomes
Antônio Carlos Gomes

Ant?nio Carlos Gomes is one of the most distinguished nineteenth century classical composers, being the first New World composer whose work was accepted by Europe....
, I Lituani

I Lituani

I Lituani is an opera consisting of a prologue and three Act by Amilcare Ponchielli to an Italian language libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, based on the History Poetry Konrad Wallenrod Writing by Poles poet Adam Mickiewicz....
for Ponchielli
Amilcare Ponchielli

Amilcare Ponchielli was an Italian composer, largely of operas....
(1874) and the second version of La forza del destino (1869). He also contributed a few verses to the revised translation into Italian of Verdi's Don Carlos

Don Carlos

Don Carlos is a five-act Grand Opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi to a French language libretto by Camille du Locle and Joseph M?ry, based on the dramatic play Don Carlos by Friedrich Schiller....
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Ghislanzoni died in Caprino, Bergamo

Bergamo

Bergamo is a town in Lombardy, Italy, about 40km northeast of Milan. The commune is home to circa 117,000 inhabitants. It is served by the Orio al Serio Airport, which also serves the Province of Bergamo, and to a lesser extent Milan....
in 1893 at age 69.

Antonio Ghislanzoni

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