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Luigi Illica

1857 - 1919

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Luigi Illica (9 May 1857 – 16 December 1919) was an Italian librettist who wrote for Giacomo Puccini (usually with Giuseppe Giacosa), Pietro Mascagni, Alfredo Catalani, Umberto Giordano, Baron Alberto Franchetti and other important Italian composers. His most famous opera libretti are those for La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Andrea Chénier. Illica was born at Castell'Arquato. His personal life sometimes imitated his libretti. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Luigi Illica is the 1,886th most popular writer (up from 2,363rd in 2019), the 1,950th most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,292nd in 2019) and the 129th most popular Italian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Luigi Illica ranks 1,886 out of 7,302. Before him are Tonino Guerra, Tristan Corbière, Chūya Nakahara, Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, Gloria E. Anzaldúa, and Nicolás Guillén. After him are Ğabdulla Tuqay, Pjetër Bogdani, Émile Augier, João de Barros, Rómulo Gallegos, and Margarete Buber-Neumann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Luigi Illica ranks 56. Before him are Theodor Kittelsen, Cyril Genik, Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden, Le Pétomane, Juan Vicente Gómez, and Jacques de Morgan. After him are Ayub Khan, Émile Coué, Hermann Sudermann, Alfred Loisy, Duke John Albert of Mecklenburg, and Herman Bang. Among people deceased in 1919, Luigi Illica ranks 57. Before him are Vasily Chapayev, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Adelina Patti, Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia, Feng Guozhang, and Friedrich Naumann. After him are Hugo Haase, William Osler, Franz von Liszt, Karl Brugmann, Ahmed Muhtar Pasha, and Eugen Leviné.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Luigi Illica ranks 1,950 out of 5,161. Before him are Matteo Messina Denaro (1962), Lancelotto Malocello (1270), Vincenzo Coronelli (1650), Alessandro Magnasco (1667), Giuseppe De Santis (1917), and Maddalena Casulana (1544). After him are Francesco Maria Veracini (1690), Angelo Bagnasco (1943), Emilio Colombo (1920), Cecilia Bartoli (1966), John II, Marquis of Montferrat (1321), and Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (1853).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Luigi Illica ranks 129. Before him are Gaius Julius Solinus (400), Giovannino Guareschi (1908), Oswald von Wolkenstein (1377), Paulinus II of Aquileia (740), Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538), and Tonino Guerra (1920). After him are Archestratus (-350), Laura Mancinelli (1933), Ippolita Maria Sforza (1446), Philemon (-362), Gian Giorgio Trissino (1478), and Aloysius Bertrand (1807).

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