Gaetano Donizetti
1797 – 1848
Italian

Composer. He was a master of bel canto melodramas.

Contemporaries
1813–1901Giuseppe Verdi
1835–1914St. Pius X
1848–1923Vilfredo Pareto
1805–1872Giuseppe Mazzini
1836–1909Cesare Lombroso
1798–1837Giacomo Leopardi
1801–1852Vicenzo Gioberti
1807–1882Giuseppe Garibaldi
1810–1861Camillo Cavour
1725–1798Giacomo Casanova
1753–1824Jean Jacques Cambacérès
1797–1878Carlo Blasis
1801–1835Vincenzo Bellini
1718–1799Maria Agnesi