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Tosca
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Tosca

Tosca (Italian pronunciation: ) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1887 French-language dramatic play, La Tosca, is a melodramatic piece set in Rome in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples's control of Rome threatened by Napoleon's invasion of Italy. It contains depictions of torture, murder...

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Tosca plutonella

speciesTosca plutonella

Tosca elachistella

speciesTosca elachistella

Tosca pollostella

speciesTosca pollostella

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Tosca in François Bouchard — Recueil de cent-trente-trois oiseaux des plus belles especes (1775)

François Bouchard — Recueil de cent-trente-trois oiseaux des plus belles especes (1775)

François Bouchard · 1775 · p.18

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 548717.