Francesco Maria Piave (Murano, May 18th 1810 - Milan, March 5th 1876) is an Italian, friendly librettist and collaborator of Giuseppe Verdi.

Biography

Wire of notable Venetian which had a glassmaking on the island of Murano, it follows its family in emigration to Pesaro, then with Rome. After studies with the seminars, he attends the literary circles and becomes member corresponding of the Accademia Tiberina in 1831 then regular member. In 1838, after the death of his/her father, it returns to Venice where he becomes sub-editor in the editor Giuseppe Antonelli.

As Made green, Piave was a burning patriot of the Italian Unité and, in 1848, during the " Cinque Giornate" from Milan, whereas the Austrian troops of Radetzky left the city, Verdi addressed a letter in the name of the " to him; Piave." citizen;

He wrote the booklets of ten of the operas of Made green: Ernani (1844), I due Foscari (1844), Attila (1846), Macbeth (1847), It Corsaro (1848), Stiffelio (1850), Rigoletto (1851), Traviata (1853), Simon Boccanegra (1857) and Forza LED destino (1862) but it also wrote booklets for works of Giovanni Pacini, Saverio Mercadante, Federico Ricci or Michael Balfe.

In 1870, it prepared a booklet for Aïda, when it became handicapped following a crisis of Apoplexie. He died in misery and Verdi had to discharge the expenses of its funerals.

Booklets

• It duca of Alba (Giovanni Pacini, 1842)

• Ernani (Giuseppe Verdi, 1844)
• I due Foscari (Made green, 1844)
• Lorenzino de Medici (Pacini, 1845)
• Estella di Murcia (Federico Ricci, 1846)
• Attila (Made green, 1846)
• Tutti amanti (C. Romani, 1847)
• Griselda (F. Ricci, 1847)
• Macbeth (Made green, 1847)
• Allan Cameron (Pacini, 1848)
• It Corsaro (Made green, 1848)
• Giovanna di Fiandre (C. Boniforti, 1848)
• Schiava Saracena (Saverio Mercadante, 1848)
• Stiffelio (Made green, 1850)
• Crispino E the comare (Luigi and F. Ricci, 1850)
• Elisabetta di Valois (Buzzolla, 1850)
• Rigoletto (Made green, 1851)
• Sposa di Murcia (A. Casalini, 1851)
• Baschina (F. De Liguoro, 1853)
• Traviata (Made green, 1853)
• Prigioniera (C. Bonsoni, 1853)
• Pittore E Duca (Michael Balfe, 1854)
• Margherita di Borgogna (F. Petrocini, 1854)
• I Fidanzati (A. Peri, 1856)
• Simon Boccanegra (Made green, 1857)
• Vittore Pisani (Perished, 1857)
• Margherita Mendicante (G. Braga, 1859)
• Biscaglina (S. Levi, 1860)
• Guglielmo Shakspeare (Benvenuti, 1861)
• Mormile (Braga, 1862)
• Forza del Destino (Made green, 1862)
• Rienzi (Perished, 1862)
• Duchessa di Guisa (Serrao, 1865)
• Rebecca (B. Pisani, 1865)
• Berta di Varnol (Pacini, 1867)
• Gift Diego of Mendoza (Pacini, 1867)
• Trombola (Cagnoni, 1868)
• Olema (C. Pedrotti, 1872)

Sources

Complete listing of the booklets of Piave on the site Operated Stanford