Pietri Biberoni
From Plastic Tub
Born 1763, Vacamadonna, Italy. Died 1820, enroute from New York City. He tries to arrive but being vaporic, cannot operate the doorhandles. Thus, he recieves nothing -- enraging him completely. He is a Coney Island bumper-car, expertly renovated.
Librettist for celebrated composer Paolo Grignotti; Biberoni collaborated with Grignotti on 27 operas and with other composers on 13 more including the famous unfinished forty-first opera, finished infamously after his death by virtuoso violinist Flambini Lamenti. Biberoni's peculiarity was to write only in Italianized versions of negro slang and to use the word "jackal" as much as possible, as in this excerpt from Martini: "You! Giacometto, you....Jackal!!"
In 1818 he went to America, where his music received a warm reception from the provincial crowds. He found a warm reception here and soon fell in with a decadent crowd which apparently put him contact with opium and wine, prostitutes and gernal dissipation. He caught an extremely virulent syphillis in December 1819, after which he decided to return to Switzerland, via Italy, for treatment. He died en route a bitter man.
He died of syphillis, consumption and malnutrition and is rumoured to be buried on the upper left side of the 18th Century section of the Grand Paupers of Music funeral yard. As he died, he hummed a new tune he had invented to go along with the libretto of the "unfinished 41st" as it has come to be known. The pilot of the fateful ship Myrmidonia watched him die and wrote "Mine eyes let drop yet one salty tear; yet it were one which could have held Creation within." It was by other accounts just a catchy little jig he heard played by the drunken whore who gave him his deadly disease.
The pilot , incidentally, was Copernicus Trowbridge|Copernicus Trowbridge's nephew Zephyron McKennerson.
Desiderata
- Biberoni was a target of ridicule at Fascist soirees led by Benito Mussolini. They referred to him as "that shit-eating dog from Padua," even though he'd never stepped foot in that city.
- Due to his uncommon sexuality he would blush at the mention of his father's sausage outlet.
