Ranieri de' Calzabigi
Italian poet and librettist
Ranieri de' Calzabigi was an Italian poet and librettist, most famous for his collaboration with the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck on his "reform" operas.
Born in Livorno, Calzabigi spent the 1750s in Paris, where he became a close friend of... Wikipedia
Born: December 23, 1714, Livorno, Italy
Died: July 1795 (age 80 years), Naples, Italy