Born in Verona, Guseppe Adami graduated from the University of Padua, Italy, with a degree in law but pursued a career in literature, both as a theatre critic and as a playwright. His first collaboration with Puccini was on the Italian text for the composer's opera The Swallow (La rondine) which he translated and adapted from the German original by Willner and Reichert. He also wrote the libretto for Il tabarro and, in collaboration with Renato Simoni, Turandot. He was the first to publish a collection of the composer's letters and one of his earliest biographers. During the Turandot years he produced seven full-length plays and several one-act plays, one with commedia characters. He wrote five other librettos and was a director of early Italian movies.

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