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.[1] Bardare also crafted a new libretto, titled Clara di Perth, for Rigoletto in an attempt to placate the Neapolitan censors.
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. The Opera Lover's Companion . Charles Osborne (music writer) . 2004 . Yale University Press . New Haven . 0300123736 . 499 . 7 April 2012 .