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Arrigo Boito

Died in 1918

Arrigo Boito (died 1918) was born in Padua on 24 February 1842, the son of the miniature painter Silvestro Boito and of a Polish countess, Józefina Radolińska. Trained at the Milan conservatory, he was afterwards one of the figures of the Scapigliatura in that city, and fought with Garibaldi in 1866. He wrote for Verdi the libretti of two operas, first performed in 1887 and 1893, and left unfinished a second opera of his own, first performed after his death. He died in Milan on 10 June 1918.

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