3585332 Portrait of Arrigo Boito (1842 ??1918) (coloured engraving) by Italian School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Arrigo Boito (1842 ??1918) was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist, librettist and composer, best known today for his libretti, especially those for Giuseppe Verdi\'s operas Otello and Falstaff, and his own opera Mefistofele. Along with Emilio Praga, and his own brother Camillo Boito he is regarded as one of the prominent representatives of the Scapigliatura artistic movement; ); Prismatic Pictures ; Italian, out of copyright.