# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ferdinando-fontana
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:53:01.193Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ferdinando-fontana"
name: "Ferdinando Fontana"
slug: "ferdinando-fontana"
description: "Ferdinando Fontana was an Italian journalist, dramatist, and poet. He is best known today for having written the libretti of the first two operas by Giacomo Puccini – Le Villi and Edgar."
tagline: "Italian writer (1850–1919)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ferdinando_Fontana_by_Vespasiano_Bignami_(before_1929)_-_Archivio_Storico_Ricordi_ICON000035_B.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1850-01-30"
deathDate: "1919-05-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             10.21739130434782
  historical:           9.873578666666669
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "فيرديناندو فونتانا"
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    title: "פרדיננדו פונטנה"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump