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Salvadore Cammarano

1801 - 1852

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Salvadore Cammarano (19 March 1801 – 17 July 1852) was an Italian librettist and playwright perhaps best known for writing the text of Lucia di Lammermoor (1835) for Gaetano Donizetti. For Donizetti he also contributed the libretti for L'assedio di Calais (1836), Belisario (1836), Pia de' Tolomei (1837), Roberto Devereux (1837), Maria de Rudenz (1838), Poliuto (1838), and Maria di Rohan (1843), while for Giuseppe Persiani he was the author of Ines de Castro. For Verdi he wrote Alzira (1845), La battaglia di Legnano (1849) and Luisa Miller (1849), but after he died in July 1852, Verdi worked with Leone Emanuele Bardare to complete the libretto for Il trovatore (1853). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Salvadore Cammarano has received more than 48,018 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Salvadore Cammarano is the 2,361st most popular writer (down from 2,245th in 2019), the 2,288th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,130th in 2019) and the 155th most popular Italian Writer.

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  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.88

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Salvadore Cammarano ranks 2,361 out of 7,302. Before him are Walter Bagehot, Dmytro Dontsov, Maksim Bahdanovič, Ybyrai Altynsarin, Frigyes Karinthy, and Jakub Bart-Ćišinski. After him are Vítězslav Nezval, Luigi Illica, Frank McCourt, Ueda Akinari, William Auld, and Ulf Stark.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Salvadore Cammarano ranks 38. Before him are Justo José de Urquiza, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, Henri Labrouste, Johann Nestroy, Julius Plücker, and Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart. After him are Fredrika Bremer, Armand Trousseau, Émile Littré, Vincenzo Gioberti, Constantine, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen, and Hippolyte Bayard. Among people deceased in 1852, Salvadore Cammarano ranks 31. Before him are Matthias Castrén, Tirimüjgan Kadın, Prince Paul of Württemberg, Étienne Maurice Gérard, Amir Kabir, and Prince Gustaf, Duke of Uppland. After him are Vincenzo Gioberti, Achille Richard, Louisa Adams, Augustus Pugin, Edward Bransfield, and Carl Borivoj Presl.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Salvadore Cammarano ranks 2,288 out of 5,161. Before him are Francesco II d'Este, Duke of Modena (1660), Taddea Visconti (1351), Pirro Ligorio (1513), Appius Claudius Crassus (-550), Francesco Erizzo (1566), and Giorgio Perlasca (1910). After him are Lucia Anguissola (1536), Bruno Rossi (1905), Alejandro Malaspina (1754), Luigi Illica (1857), Carlo Ruzzini (1653), and Domenico Dragonetti (1763).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Salvadore Cammarano ranks 155. Before him are Felice Romani (1788), Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark (1939), Umberto Saba (1883), Indro Montanelli (1909), Niccolò de' Niccoli (1365), and Tullia d'Aragona (1510). After him are Luigi Illica (1857), Ludovico di Varthema (1470), Giovanni Pascoli (1855), Ugo Betti (1892), Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893), and Giovanni de' Bardi (1534).

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