Arrigo Boito, Italian journalist, author, and composer (died 1918)

Arrigo Boito

Italian librettist and composer (1842–1918)

Arrigo Boito was an Italian librettist, composer, poet and critic whose only completed opera was Mefistofele. Among the operas for which he wrote the libretti are Giuseppe Verdi's monumental last two operas Otello and Falstaff as well as Amilcare Ponchielli's La Gioconda.