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Giuseppe Giacosa

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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Giuseppe Giacosa (21 October 1847 – 1 September 1906) was an Italian poet, playwright and librettist.

He was born in Colleretto Parella, near Turin.

He gained initial fame for writing the poems in Una Partita a Scacchi (a Game of Chess) in 1871. He wrote La Dame de Challant for noted French actress Sarah Bernhardt, which she produced in New York in 1891.

He also wrote the librettos used by Giacomo Puccini in La bohème, Tosca and Madama Butterfly in conjunction with Luigi Illica.

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