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Giuseppe Maria Foppa

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Giuseppe Maria Foppa (Venice, 12 July 1760 – Venice, 1 March 1845) was an Italian librettist. He wrote around 150 libretti, mainly for comic operas, as well as Latin oratorio texts and his memoirs.[1] He composed work for theatres in Milan, Genoa, Pistoia, Padua, Reggio Emilia, Bologna, and Florence.[citation needed]

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  1. ^ Richard Osborne Rossini 2007 0199724407 p.368 "Foppa, Giuseppe (1760–1845), librettist. An archivist and government official, he wrote some 150 opera libretti. A master of the one-act farsa popular in Venice from the early 1790s, he drew his material from French and Neapolitan sources,"