Arrigo Boito

People best know romantic opera

Mefistofele

(1868) of Italian composer, librettist, and writer Arrigo Boito.

We today consider Arrigo Boito, a poet, journalist, novelist, for especially

Otello

and

Falstaff

of Giuseppe Verdi, and his own. People regard him alongside Emilio Praga of the prominent representatives of the Scapigliatura artistic movement.

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