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Arrigo Boito

1842 - 1918

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Arrigo Boito (Italian: [arˈriːɡo ˈbɔito]; born Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito; 24 February 1842 – 10 June 1918) was an Italian librettist, composer, poet and critic whose only completed opera was Mefistofele. Among the operas for which he wrote the libretti are Giuseppe Verdi's monumental last two operas Otello and Falstaff as well as Amilcare Ponchielli's La Gioconda. Along with Emilio Praga and his brother Camillo Boito, he is regarded as one of the prominent representatives of the Scapigliatura (Italian bohemian) artistic movement. He wrote essays under the anagrammatic pseudonym of Tobia Gorrio. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Arrigo Boito is the 777th most popular writer (down from 772nd in 2019), the 968th most popular biography from Italy (down from 933rd in 2019) and the 69th most popular Italian Writer.

Arrigo Boito was an Italian poet and composer. He is most famous for his libretto for Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Otello".

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Among writers, Arrigo Boito ranks 777 out of 7,302. Before him are Heliodorus of Emesa, Agathias, Aubrey Beardsley, William Beckford, Henry Fielding, and H. L. Mencken. After him are Anna Seghers, Ninon de l'Enclos, Valerius Maximus, Otto of Freising, Achim von Arnim, and N. F. S. Grundtvig.

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Among people born in 1842, Arrigo Boito ranks 15. Before him are Karl May, Dominic Savio, Josef Breuer, Camille Flammarion, Paul Lafargue, and Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann. After him are Hermann Cohen, Osborne Reynolds, James Dewar, Vasily Vereshchagin, Georg Brandes, and Sophus Lie. Among people deceased in 1918, Arrigo Boito ranks 33. Before him are George Reid, Niko Pirosmani, Lavr Kornilov, César Cui, Ferdinand Hodler, and Edmond Rostand. After him are Fanny Kaplan, Hermann Cohen, Lili Boulanger, Paul Vidal de La Blache, Paul von Rennenkampf, and Aleksandr Lyapunov.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Arrigo Boito ranks 968 out of 5,161. Before him are Bernardo Provenzano (1933), William I of Sicily (1126), Gemma Galgani (1878), Frances of Rome (1384), Alfonso II of Naples (1448), and Giorgio Morandi (1890). After him are Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (1587), Lucrezia de' Medici, Duchess of Ferrara (1545), Edda Mussolini (1910), Occhiali (1519), Valerius Maximus (-100), and Guarino Guarini (1624).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Arrigo Boito ranks 69. Before him are Epicharmus of Kos (-524), Pietro Bembo (1470), Emilio Salgari (1862), Natalia Ginzburg (1916), Theognis of Megara (-570), and Maurus Servius Honoratus (363). After him are Valerius Maximus (-100), Gnaeus Naevius (-275), Cesare Pavese (1908), Gerard of Cremona (1114), Elsa Morante (1912), and Stesichorus (-630).

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