Emilio Praga (18 December 1839 – 26 December 1875) was an Italian writer, painter, poet and

librettist A libretto (Italian for "booklet") is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major litu ...

. He is the father of the artist

Marco Praga Marco Praga (born Milan, 20 June 1862; died 31 January 1929) was an Italian playwright popular in his era. His two most successful plays were ''La vergini'' and ''La moglie ideale'' (1890), which reportedly contained one of Eleonora Duse's great ...

. He belongs to the artistic movement

Scapigliatura ''Scapigliatura'' () is the name of an artistic movement that developed in Italy after the Risorgimento period (1815–71). The movement included poets, writers, musicians, painters and sculptors. The term Scapigliatura is the Italian equivalent of ...

. 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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* * * 1839 births 1875 deaths Writers from Milan Italian opera librettists 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Milan Italian male dramatists and playwrights 19th-century Italian dramatists and playwrights 19th-century Italian male writers 19th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-artist-stub