Italian poet, playwright & librettist Giuseppe Giacosa died #OTD in 1906.
He gained initial fame for his play Una Partita a Scacchi in 1871. His main field was playwriting, which he accomplished with both insight & simplicity, using subjects set in Piedmont and themes addressing contemporary bourgeois values. He wrote La signora di Challant for noted actress Sarah Bernhardt, produced in New York in 1891.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Giacosa
Giuseppe Giacosa at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5243