Guido Menasci,
librettist

Guido Menasci was born il Livorno the March 24, 1867  and was a librettist,  regular collaborator  with Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti on Cavalleria rusticana, I Rantzau and Zanetto for Mascagni and Regina Diaz for Umberto Giordano.   For August Scharrer  he wrote the libretto of  Redenzione and for Ignaz Brüll he wrote Gloria.   He died in Livorno the December 26, 1925.