To celebrate the solemn conversion to Catholicism of Queen Christina of Sweden, in 1655 Giovanni Filippo Apolloni and Antonio Cesti composed L'Argia, a dramma per musica which had good fortune in Italy until the 1680s. The plot of the opera seems to follow the compositional models offered in the Venetian librettos by Giacinto Andrea Cicognini, of whom Apolloni was considered one of the best followers in introducing musical dramas onto the stage. Recent studies have linked the subject of L’Argia to Le gelosie fortunate del principe Rodrigo, a comedy by Cicognini dating back to 1654 that has often been related to Spanish theatre of the siglo de oro, although the sources of this work have not yet been definitively identified. These relationships are the subject of this paper.
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Titolo del capitolo
«Un dramma per la musica … alla moda di Venezia»: L’Argia (1655) di Apolloni e Cesti tra Cicognini e il teatro spagnolo
Autori
Nicola Badolato
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0857-4.09
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Licenza dei metadati
Titolo del libro
La recepción del teatro clásico español en Europa (siglos XVII-XVIII)
Curatori
Fausta Antonucci, Salomé Vuelta García
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
300
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
Copyright
© 2026 Author(s)
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Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0857-4
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0856-7
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0857-4
Collana
Moderna/Comparata
ISSN della collana
2704-5641
e-ISSN della collana
2704-565X