Antonio Piazza

Antonio Piazza was a Brescian man of letters and journalist, a civil servant in Brescia and Milan who edited the Corriere delle Dame from 1834Gerhard, A. and Ottomano, V. C. (2015) 'Piazza, Antonio', in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, vol. 83. (Accessed: 19 October 2026).. Probably through Andrea Maffei he came to know the young VerdiGerhard, A. and Ottomano, V. C. (2015) 'Piazza, Antonio', in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, vol. 83. (Accessed: 19 October 2026)., and with Temistocle Solera wrote the libretto of his first opera, Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio (La Scala, 1839)Gerhard, A. and Ottomano, V. C. (2015) 'Piazza, Antonio', in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, vol. 83. (Accessed: 19 October 2026)., which he claimed in the Corriere delle Dame as invented by him from beginning to endGerhard, A. and Ottomano, V. C. (2015) 'Piazza, Antonio', in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, vol. 83. (Accessed: 19 October 2026)., though the printed libretto names Solera aloneWikipedia (2026) Oberto (opera). (Accessed: 19 October 2026).. He also wrote the verses of a cantata on Malibran's death, set by Donizetti, Pacini and MercadanteGerhard, A. and Ottomano, V. C. (2015) 'Piazza, Antonio', in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, vol. 83. (Accessed: 19 October 2026)..