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in 1870. Her father was a baritone and her uncles were also opera singers; the baritone
Giuseppe Villani and the bass Roberto Villani. Roberto Villani was the father of soprano Renata Villani and the husband of opera singer Maria Santoliva-Villani. Luisa's mother, a
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