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Arrigo Boito (1842–1918)
Boito, Arrigo (bō-ē’tō). An Italian poet and musician; born at Padua, Feb. 24, 1842; died in 1918. His father was an Italian painter and his mother was a Polish lady, and the son inherits the gifts of both nations. His librettos written for Verdi, Bottesini, and Ponchielli, and his own operas, ‘Mefistofele’ and ‘Nerone,’ are of a high order of poetry. In 1877 he published a separate volume of verse.