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Ranieri de' Calzabigi

1714 - 1795

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Ranieri de' Calzabigi (Italian pronunciation: [raˈnjɛːri de kaltsaˈbiːdʒi]; 23 December 1714 – July 1795) was an Italian poet and librettist, most famous for his collaboration with the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck on his "reform" operas. Born in Livorno, Calzabigi spent the 1750s in Paris, where he became a close friend of Giacomo Casanova. Here he explored his interest in opera, producing an edition of the works of Pietro Metastasio, the most famous librettist of opera seria. However, Calzabigi was also impressed by French tragédie en musique, and eager to reform Italian opera by making it simpler and more dramatically effective. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ranieri de' Calzabigi is the 3,791st most popular writer (down from 3,615th in 2019), the 3,134th most popular biography from Italy (down from 3,036th in 2019) and the 216th most popular Italian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ranieri de' Calzabigi ranks 3,791 out of 7,302. Before him are Jiří Dienstbier, Mikhail Isakovsky, Jules Janin, Cao Yu, Gunter d'Alquen, and Patrick Leigh Fermor. After him are Auguste Barbier, Merab Kostava, Donald Barthelme, Peter Mayle, Anton Delvig, and Irakli Abashidze.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1714, Ranieri de' Calzabigi ranks 25. Before him are Christoph Bartholomäus Anton Migazzi, Anna Morandi Manzolini, Princess Anne Charlotte of Lorraine, Richard Wilson, René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, and Suleiman II of Persia. After him are Philippine Élisabeth d'Orléans, Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch, Kosmas the Aetolian, Gottfried August Homilius, Mikhail Illarionovich Vorontsov, and Marc René, marquis de Montalembert. Among people deceased in 1795, Ranieri de' Calzabigi ranks 28. Before him are Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, Michel Corrette, Francisco Bayeu y Subías, Grigory Shelikhov, Louis Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, and Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo. After him are Maruyama Ōkyo, Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, Johan Henric Kellgren, William Bradford, Eugenio Espejo, and Ivan Betskoy.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Ranieri de' Calzabigi ranks 3,135 out of 5,161. Before him are Marcus Plautius Silvanus (null), Clyde Geronimi (1901), Francesco Loredan (1685), Francesco Sabatini (1721), Giulio Cesare Polerio (1548), and Marcus Aurelius Cotta (-150). After him are Vannoccio Biringuccio (1480), Giacomo Ceruti (1698), Francesco Faà di Bruno (1825), Tommaso Tittoni (1855), Antonio Di Pietro (1950), and Sergio Rossi (1935).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Ranieri de' Calzabigi ranks 216. Before him are Teofilo Folengo (1491), Julius Obsequens (400), Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (1791), Arator (500), Teresa de Lauretis (1938), and Antonio Beccadelli (1394). After him are Luigi Capuana (1839), Francesco de Sanctis (1817), Titus Calpurnius Siculus (290), Girolamo de Rada (1814), Leonidas of Tarentum (-320), and Valerio Massimo Manfredi (1942).

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