Verona boasts a cultural background that is not only linked to the long stay of Dante in the city, where his descendents still live, but also to the many distinguished scholars, writers, poets and philologists in a kind of \"anthology\" of historical figures and personalities in Italian and international literature.
Ippolito Pindemonte, Emilio Salgari, Scipione Maffei and Aleardo Aleardi lead the way, followed by Cesare Marchi and a number of famous librettists, such as Giuseppe Adami who wrote for Puccini.
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