Illica, Luigi
(1857–1919)> LIBRETTIST
Illica, Luigi (9 May 1857, Castell’ Arquato; 16 December 1919, Colombarone), Italian librettist, ran away from home and school to go to sea at an early age, and he found himself involved in naval combat against the Turks before he reached age 20. He gave up his romantic maritime career to settle in Milan in 1879, and in 1881 he moved to Bologna. Here he started a republican literary journal with the help of Carducci , but he returned to Milan in 1882 to publish his first volume of verse and to…