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3 unusual facts about Francesco Maria Piave


Eugène Bourgeois

He is remembered today for collaborating with Émile Souvestre on the play Le Pasteur ou l'Évangile et le foyer, which was adapted by Francesco Maria Piave into the libretto for Giuseppe Verdi's Stiffelio.

Francesco Maria Piave

Phillips-Matz, Mary Jane (1993), Verdi: A Biography, London & New York: Oxford University Press.

Like Verdi, Piave was an ardent Italian patriot, and in 1848, during Milan's "Cinque Giornate," when Radetzky's Austrian troops retreated from the city, Verdi wrote to Piave in Venice addressing him as "Citizen Piave."



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