Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti

For the Italian naturalist (1712-1783), see Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti.

Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti (left) with Pietro Mascagni and Guido Menasci.

Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti (March 17, 1863 – May 30, 1934) was an Italian librettist, best known for his friendship and collaboration with the composer Pietro Mascagni. Most of his libretti were written in collaboration with Guido Menasci.

Targioni-Tozzetti was born in Livorno.

Operas

• Cavalleria rusticana (1890)
• I Rantzau (1892)
• Regina Diaz (1894)
• Silvano (1895)
• Zanetto (1896)
• Amica (1905)
• La sposa di Nino (1913)
• Pinotta (1932)
• Nerone (1935)

External links

• Works by or about Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Works by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti at Project Gutenberg