Balochi, Ballochi, or Balloco, Louis

Balochi, Ballochi, or Balloco, Louis (1766, Verceil; April 1832, Paris), librettist, studied at Pisa and earned a doctorate in jurisprudence at the university in this city in 1786. He gave up the practice of law in favor of poetry, however, and started his literary career in 1802 with a translation of a composition by Legouvé entitled Il Merito delle donne . He came to Paris this same year as writer and director for the Théâtre-Italien and remained with this troupe for a score of years…