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Domenico Lalli | |
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 Engraved portrait of Lalli published in 1818 | |
| Born | Sebastiano Biancardi 27 March 1679 |
| Died | 9 October 1741 (aged 62) |
| Known for | Opera librettist |
Sebastiano Biancardi (27 March 1679[citation needed] – 9 October 1741),[a] known by the pseudonym Domenico Lalli, was an Italian poet and librettist. Amongst the many libretti he produced, largely for the opera houses of Venice, were those for Vivaldi's Ottone in villa and Alessandro Scarlatti's Tigrane. A member of the Accademia degli Arcadi, he also wrote under his arcadian name "Ortanio". Lalli was born and raised in Naples as the adopted son of Fulvio Caracciolo but fled the city after being implicated in a bank fraud. After two years wandering about Italy in the company of Emanuele d'Astorga, he settled in Venice in 1710 and worked as the "house poet" of the Grimani family's theatres for the rest of his career. In addition to his stage works, Lalli published several volumes of poetry and a collection of biographies of the kings of Naples. He died in Venice at the age of 62.
- ^ Mazzarella, Andrea (1818). "Bastiano Biancardi". Biografia degli uomini illustri del Regno di Napoli. Vol. 5, pp. 37–40. Nicola Gervasi (in Italian)
- ^ Biancardi, Sebastiano (1708). All'altezza reale di Cosimo III, gran duca di Toscana. Rime di Niccolò Bastiano Biancardi. Vincenzio Vangelisti (in Italian)
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