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Arrigo Boito
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Arrigo Boito
Arrigo Boito
(; 24 February 1842 10 June 1918) (whose original name was
Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito
and who wrote essays under the anagrammatic
pseudonym
of Tobia Gorrio), was an
Italian
poet
,
journalist
,
novelist
,
librettist
and
composer
, best known today for his
libretti
, especially those for
Giuseppe Verdi
's operas
Otello
and
Falstaff
, and his own opera
Mefistofele
. Along with
Emilio Praga
, and his own brother
Camillo Boito
he is regarded as one of the prominent representatives of the
Scapigliatura
artistic movement.
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