Crossword-Solution: BOITO 5 letters, 13 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Boito remarks very appositely in the Saggio on page 26, "doveva sembrare fratello al cavallo del Colleoni.

Goethe uses the scene of the amour between Faust and the ancient beauty in the second part of his poem as does Boito in his "Mefistofele," charging it with the beautiful symbolism which was in the German poet's mind.

Between Spohr's "Faust," written in 1813 and performed in 1818, and Boito's "Mefistofele," produced in 1868, many French, German, English, Italian, Russian, and Polish Faust operas have come into existence, lived their little lives, and died.

Boito is not a Beethoven nor yet a Meyerbeer; but, though he did what neither of them would venture upon when he wrote a Faust opera, he did it with complete and lovely reverence for the creation of the German poet.

This notion, equally convenient to an indolent man or a colossal egoist--I do not believe that Boito is either--has been nurtured by many pretty stories; but, unhappily, we have had nothing to help us to form an opinion of Boito as a creative artist since "Mefistofele" appeared, except the opera books written for Verdi and Ponchielli and the libretto of "Ero e Leandro." Boito's father was an Italian, his mother a Pole.