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Arrigo Boito (February 24, 1842 – June 10, 1918), aka Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito, pseudonym Tobia Gorrio, was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist and composer, best known today for his opera libretti and his own opera, Mefistofele. Born in Padua, the son of an Italian painter of miniatures and Polish countess, Józefina Radolińska, Boito studied music at the Milan Conservatoire, which he finished in 1861. In 1866 he fought under Garibaldi. The premiere of his only finished opera,... full article at wikipedia

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