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Giuseppe Giacosa (21 October, 1847 – 1 September, 1906) was an Italian poet
Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
, playwright
Playwright

A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. These works may be written specifically to be performed by actors or they may be closet dramas or literary works written using dramatic forms but not meant for performance....
 and librettist
Libretto

A libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, sacred or secular oratorio and cantata, Musical theater, and ballet....
.

He was born in Colleretto Parella, now Colleretto Giacosa
Colleretto Giacosa

Colleretto Giacosa is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italy region Piedmont, located about 40 km north of Turin. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 624 and an area of 4.6 km?....
, near Turin
Turín

Tur?n is a municipality in the Ahuachap?n Department Departments of El Salvador of El Salvador....
. His father was a magistrate. Giuseppe went to the University of Turin and gained a degree in law, but did not pursue this career.

He gained initial fame for writing the poems in Una Partita a Scacchi (a Game of Chess) in 1871.






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Giacosa Giuseppe
Giuseppe Giacosa (21 October, 1847 – 1 September, 1906) was an Italian poet
Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
, playwright
Playwright

A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. These works may be written specifically to be performed by actors or they may be closet dramas or literary works written using dramatic forms but not meant for performance....
 and librettist
Libretto

A libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, sacred or secular oratorio and cantata, Musical theater, and ballet....
.

He was born in Colleretto Parella, now Colleretto Giacosa
Colleretto Giacosa

Colleretto Giacosa is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italy region Piedmont, located about 40 km north of Turin. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 624 and an area of 4.6 km?....
, near Turin
Turín

Tur?n is a municipality in the Ahuachap?n Department Departments of El Salvador of El Salvador....
. His father was a magistrate. Giuseppe went to the University of Turin and gained a degree in law, but did not pursue this career.

He gained initial fame for writing the poems in Una Partita a Scacchi (a Game of Chess) in 1871. His main field was playwriting, which he accomplished with both insight and simplicity, using subjects set in Piedmont and themes addressing contemporary bourgeois values. He wrote La Dame de Challant for noted French actress Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt was a French stage actress, and has been referred to as "the most famous actress in the history of the world". Bernhardt made her fame on the stages of Europe in the 1870s, and was soon in demand in Europe and the Americas....
, which she produced in New York in 1891.

He also wrote the librettos used by Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italians composer whose operas, including La boh?me, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the List of important operas....
 in La bohčme
La bohčme

La boh?me is an opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Sc?nes de la vie de boh?me by Henri Murger....
, Tosca
Tosca

Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Victorien Sardou drama, La Tosca....
 and Madama Butterfly
Madama Butterfly

Madama Butterfly is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa....
 in conjunction with Luigi Illica
Luigi Illica

Luigi Illica was an Italians librettist who wrote for Giacomo Puccini , Alfredo Catalani, Umberto Giordano and other important Italian composers....
.

See also Scapigliatura
Scapigliatura

Scapigliatura is the name of the artistic movement which developed in Italy after the period known as Risorgimento, . The name Scapigliatura is the Italian equivalent of the French Boheme and Scapigliati the name given to this group of artists which included poets and writers, musicians, painters and sculptors....


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