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Gaetano Donizetti
Gaetano Donizetti, portrait by Giovanni Carnevali; in the Museo Donizettiano, Bergamo, Italy.
Gaetano Donizetti was born on November 29, 1797, in Bergamo, which was then part of the Cisalpine Republic.1