Baron Melchiorre De Filippis Delfico was an Italian artist, composer, singer, conductor, writer, librettist and a master of the Neapolitan art of caricature who inspired, among others, Carlo Pellegrin
Melchiorre Delfico
Giuseppe Verdi caricatured by Delfico (1860)
Charles Gilpin (politician)
William Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans
Simon Boccanegra
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Simon Boccanegra is an opera with a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the play Simón Bocanegra by Antonio García Gutiérrez.
First edition libretto for the 1881 revision
Verdi in 1859
Francesco Maria Piave, librettist of the 1857 version
Set design by Girolamo Magnani for 1881 revision