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Salvadore Cammarano

1801 - 1852

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Salvadore Cammarano (also Salvatore) (born Naples, 19 March 1801 – died Naples 17 July 1852) was a prolific 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 44,736 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Salvadore Cammarano is the 2,252nd most popular writer (down from 2,186th in 2019), the 2,135th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,055th in 2019) and the 149th most popular Italian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Salvadore Cammarano ranks 2,252 out of 5,755Before him are Johann Peter Hebel, Karel Hynek Mácha, Robert Southey, Pentti Linkola, Noël Coward, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. After him are Rahel Varnhagen, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, Claudine Guérin de Tencin, Andrei Voznesensky, Gaston Paris, and Vsevolod Garshin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Salvadore Cammarano ranks 38Before him are Richard Parkes Bonington, Hippolyte Bayard, Justo José de Urquiza, Fredrika Bremer, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, and Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart. After him are Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, Johann Nestroy, Armand Trousseau, Émile Littré, Infanta Isabel Maria of Braganza, and Vincenzo Gioberti. Among people deceased in 1852, Salvadore Cammarano ranks 27Before him are Táhirih, Gideon Mantell, Gotthold Eisenstein, Prince Paul of Württemberg, Prince Gustaf, Duke of Uppland, and Mirza Shafi Vazeh. After him are Amir Kabir, Augustus Pugin, Matthias Castrén, Étienne Maurice Gérard, Vincenzo Gioberti, and Edward Bransfield.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Salvadore Cammarano ranks 2,135 out of 4,668Before him are Domenico Tardini (1888), Domenico Tintoretto (1560), Antonio Bazzini (1818), Ercole de' Roberti (1450), Ignazio Giunti (1941), and Angelo Bagnasco (1943). After him are Aripert I (625), Felix of Nola (300), Vulca (-600), Aripert II (680), Romaine Brooks (1874), and Oliviero Carafa (1430).

Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Salvadore Cammarano ranks 149Before him are Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538), Lucilius Junior (6), Umberto Saba (1883), Gian Giorgio Trissino (1478), Indro Montanelli (1909), and Tavo Burat (1932). After him are Luigi Pulci (1432), Giovanni Pascoli (1855), Apostolo Zeno (1668), Cangrande I della Scala (1291), Giovanni de' Bardi (1534), and Guido Guinizelli (1230).