Schipa michelangelo biography

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Raffaele Attilio Amedeo Schipa is born in Lecce, fourth in a modest family (his father Luigi is a custom officer) in the working-class neighbourhood called Le Scalze, last days of , though recorded January 2, for conscription reasons.

His supernatural vocal gift is immediately noticed by his primary school teacher Giovanni Albani, then by all Lecce, wich actually always considered him "propheta in patria".

The arrival from Neaples () of bishop Gennaro Trama, real talent scout of those times, offers the young talent - whose nickname is now "Titu" (tiny) - the chance to enter the local Seminary, where he will study singing and composition.

After a restless adolescence in his natal city - where he proves himself to be a promising performer and a tireless seducer - he follows the suggestion of his best teacher, Alceste Gerunda, and emigrates to Milan in order to perfect his technique with Emilio Piccoli and to seek occasion for a deb