biography
pronunciation:
[jiakohsa]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1847–1906)
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| biography:
| Writer and playwright, born in Colleretto Parella, Piedmont, N Italy. He trained as a lawyer but soon turned to writing successful plays which depicted the life of the middle classes, such as Tristi amori (1887) and Come le foglie (1900), and is considered the leading Italian playwright of the latter 19th-c. He also wrote, together with Luigi Illica, librettos for Puccini's operas La Bohème (1896), Tosca (1899), and Madama Butterfly (1903). |
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