Leone Emanuele Bardare

{{Short description|Italian poet}}

Leone Emanuele Bardare (born Naples, c. 1820 – died there after 1874) was an Italian poet. He completed the libretto to Giuseppe Verdi's Il trovatore after the death (in 1852) of its original librettist Salvadore Cammarano.{{Cite book |title=The Opera Lover's Companion |last=Osborne |first=Charles |authorlink=Charles Osborne (music writer) |year=2004 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven |isbn=0300123736 |page=499 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x1o-iElHqZkC&pg=PA499 |accessdate=7 April 2012 }} Bardare also crafted a new libretto, titled Clara di Perth, for Rigoletto in an attempt to placate the Neapolitan censors.