WRITER

Luigi Illica

1857 - 1919

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Luigi Illica (9 May 1857 – 16 December 1919) was an Italian librettist who wrote for Giacomo Puccini (usually with Giuseppe Giacosa), Pietro Mascagni, Alfredo Catalani, Umberto Giordano, Baron Alberto Franchetti and other important Italian composers. His most famous opera libretti are those for La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Andrea Chénier. Illica was born at Castell'Arquato. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luigi Illica has received more than 84,592 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Luigi Illica is the 2,363rd most popular writer (up from 2,466th in 2019), the 2,292nd most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,294th in 2019) and the 156th most popular Italian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 85k

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  • 54.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Madame Butterfly
2018
Isabeau
2018
Andrea Chénier
Operas, Librettos
1896
André Chénier; Opera in Four Acts. Libretto by Luigi Illica
2018
Iris
Operas, Librettos
1898
Cristoforo Colombo
Drama, Operas, Librettos
1892

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Luigi Illica ranks 2,363 out of 7,302. Before him are Maksim Bahdanovič, Ybyrai Altynsarin, Frigyes Karinthy, Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Salvadore Cammarano, and Vítězslav Nezval. After him are Frank McCourt, Ueda Akinari, William Auld, Ulf Stark, António Vieira, and Ludovico di Varthema.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Luigi Illica ranks 62. Before him are Jacques de Morgan, A. E. Waite, Herman Bang, Gotō Shinpei, Duke John Albert of Mecklenburg, and Alfred Loisy. After him are Fergus Suter, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, Émile Cohl, Oskar von Hutier, Julius Popper, and Hermann Sudermann. Among people deceased in 1919, Luigi Illica ranks 71. Before him are Itagaki Taisuke, Adolf Schmal, William Osler, Louis Botha, Julia Lermontova, and Wilhelm Lehmbruck. After him are Melchora Aquino, Adelina Patti, Max Heindel, Wilfrid Laurier, Jérôme Eugène Coggia, and Francisco Moreno.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Luigi Illica ranks 2,292 out of 5,161. Before him are Francesco Erizzo (1566), Giorgio Perlasca (1910), Salvadore Cammarano (1801), Lucia Anguissola (1536), Bruno Rossi (1905), and Alejandro Malaspina (1754). After him are Carlo Ruzzini (1653), Domenico Dragonetti (1763), Eduardo di Capua (1865), Archduke Maximilian of Austria-Este (1782), Ludovico di Varthema (1470), and Ignazio La Russa (1947).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Luigi Illica ranks 156. Before him are Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark (1939), Umberto Saba (1883), Indro Montanelli (1909), Niccolò de' Niccoli (1365), Tullia d'Aragona (1510), and Salvadore Cammarano (1801). After him are Ludovico di Varthema (1470), Giovanni Pascoli (1855), Ugo Betti (1892), Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893), Giovanni de' Bardi (1534), and Ottavio Rinuccini (1562).

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