Antonio Ghislanzoni

Antonio Ghislanzoni ( born November 25, 1824 in Barco di Maggianico (Lecco ), † July 16, 1893 in Caprino Bergamasco, Province of Bergamo, Italy ) was an Italian writer and librettist.

Ghislanzoni studied medicine, but gave up his studies to become a singer stage. He edited in 1848 in Milan several radical newspapers and had to flee as a result, after the return of the Austrians, where he fell to Rome besieging the French in his hands and was taken to Corsica. After his release he went to Paris in 1851 at the Théâtre des Italiens resume his work with the stage again.

However, since he lost his voice after three years, he returned to Italy, where he lived as a writer since then. He was co-founder in 1857 of the humorous magazine L' uomo di pietra, also edited a long time the Rivista minima, which he wrote almost alone, and was later in Lecco, the Giornale capriccio out.

Ghislanzoni among other things wrote the libretti for the operas Aida and La forza del destino ( Revised) by Verdi.

Works

• Gli artisti da teatro, Roman ( 1865)
• Giovanni di Napoli, lyrical drama (1869 )
• Scritti Piacevoli ( 1869-72 )
• Capricci Letterari (1870 )
• Le donne brutte, comic novel (1870 )
• Gli artisti alla fiera (1872 )
• I Lituani, libretto (1874 ) by Adam Mickiewicz: Konrad Wallenrod (1828 )
• Libro proibito (1879 )
• Libro allegro
• Libro serio (1879 )
• La moda nell ' arte, comedy (1881 )
• Melody by canto (1881 )
• Libro bizzarro (1882 )
• Nuovi racconti da ridere (1882 )
• Abracadabra (1884 )