Luigi Scevola (born

Brescia Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Iseo. ...

, 1770 – died

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, 7 August 1819) was an Italian dramatist. He was born in Brescia, and became a professor of rhetoric there. After the French conquest of the Veneto, he became Secretary of Education (istruzione pubblica). In that position, he defended some of the libraries of the religious institutions from confiscation, including the

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. With the fall of Napoleon in 1815, he lost his position and withdrew to Milan. He is described as a follower of the style of

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(Astigiano?),La Caduta Della Repubblica di Venezia ed I Suoi Ultimi Cinquant Anni Studii
by Girolamo Dandolo; Publisher, Pietro Natarovich, Venice (1855); pages 176. while other note he wrote in the style of

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. Scevola was the author of the tragedies ''La Morte di Socrate'' ( Death of Socrates) in 1804; ''Annibale in Bitinia'' (

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in Bythnia) in 1806; Aristodemo; Erode; and ''Saffo'' (

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) in 1814. One of his plays was the basis of the libretti for ''

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'' (Romeo and Juliet) by

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and ''

I Capuleti e i Montecchi ''I Capuleti e i Montecchi'' (''The Capulets and the Montagues'') is an Italian opera (''Tragedia lirica'') in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini. The libretto by Felice Romani was a reworking of the story of ''Romeo and Juliet'' for an opera by Nicol ...

'' by

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