Tracy Byrd - Drinkin Bone

GISLANZONI (Ghislanzoni) Antonio (25 XI 1824, Lecco - 16 VII 1893, Caprino-Bergamasco) - Italian. librettist, writer, singer (baritone). He studied at the medical faculty of the University in Pavia. At the same time he played the double bass, studied singing. From 1846 he performed on Italian stages. opera houses. In 1848 he participated in the liberation. war, fighting in Lombardy and Tuscany. In 1849 he was captured by the French, imprisoned. After his release, he sang in theaters in France. Since 1856, having lost his voice, he took up lit. and published. work. In 1865-78 he collaborated in Rivista minima di scienze, lettere ed arti, in 1866-72 in the Gazzetta musicale di Milano. Author of novels, the best of which is “Theater Artists” (“Gli artisti da teatro”, 1856, 1865); plays, short stories, epigrams, pl. articles about muses. theater and literature, including notes and memoirs ("Capricci letterari", v. 1-6, Bergamo, 1886-89;