Emilio Praga
{{short description|Italian painter}}
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Emilio Praga (18 December 1839 – 26 December 1875) was an Italian writer, painter, poet, and librettist.{{Cite book |last=Marrone |first=Gaetana |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=69ey6Z-05fMC |title=Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J |date=2007 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-57958-390-3 |pages=1490–1492 |language=en}} He is the father of the artist Marco Praga. He belongs to the artistic movement Scapigliatura and Lombard line.
Biography
Born to a wealthy Milanese family, Praga destroyed himself largely through alcohol and drugs after his father's death plunged the family into poverty. He had been a painter before turning to poetry with Tavolozza (1862). He became a leading presence in the Milanese Scapigliatura, writing its artistic manifesto with Camillo Boito in 1864. He published stories and libretti, as well as the poems of Penombre (1864) and Fiabe e leggende (1867). A novel, Memorie di un presbiterio, was completed after his death by Roberto Sacchetti.
File:Praga - Le madri galanti.djvu|Le madri galanti, 1863
File:Penombre.djvu|Penombre, 1864
File:Fiabe e leggende Emilio Praga.djvu|Fiabe e leggende, 1867
File:Praga - Memorie del presbiterio.djvu|Memorie del presbiterio, 1881
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- {{Gutenberg author | id=5167| name=Emilio Praga}}
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Emilio Praga}}
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Category:Italian opera librettists
Category:19th-century Italian painters
Category:Italian male painters
Category:Italian male dramatists and playwrights
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