Italy On This Day

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Showing posts with label 1749. Show all posts

Showing posts with label 1749. Show all posts

10 March 2017

Lorenzo Da Ponte - writer and impresario

Colourful life of Mozart's librettist Lorenzo da Ponte, as depicted in a 19th century engraving by Michele Pekenino The libretti...

16 January 2017

Count Vittorio Alfieri – playwright and poet

Romantic nobleman inspired the oppressed with his writing A painting by Francois-Xavier Fabre of Alfieri, property of the High Museum ...

17 December 2015

Domenico Cimarosa – opera composer

Musician who developed the model for ‘comic opera’ A prolific composer of operas, Domenico Cimarosa was born on this day in 1749 in Avers...

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