Name Grazio Braccioli Libretti Orlando furioso | Role Librettist | |
A. Vivaldi: Orlando furioso (RV 728) - I/XII Aria [Alcina]: Amorose a' rai del sole / J. Larmore
Grazio Braccioli (1682–1752) was an Italian jurist, poet and librettist. Born in Ferrara, he wrote 9 libretti for operas produced at the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice between 1711 and 1715. Among them were the libretti for Vivaldi's Orlando furioso and Orlando finto pazzo.
A Doctor of civil and canon law, he lectured in both at the University of Ferrara. He was also a member of the Accademia degli Arcadi, for whom he wrote under the pseudonym "Nigello Preteo".
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