Francesco Buti (

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, 1604 – Narni, 15 June 1682) was an Italian poet and

librettist A libretto (Italian for "booklet") is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major litu ...

Biography

Abbot and doctor of law, he was secretary in Rome of Cardinal

Antonio Barberini Antonio Barberini (5 August 1607 – 3 August 1671) was an Italian Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Reims, military leader, patron of the arts and a prominent member of the House of Barberini. As one of the cardinal-nephews of Pope Urban VIII ...

, nephew of Pope Urban VIII. In 1645 he emigrated to France with the

Barberini family The House of Barberini are a family of the Italian nobility that rose to prominence in 17th century Rome. Their influence peaked with the election of Cardinal Maffeo Barberini to the papal throne in 1623, as Pope Urban VIII. Their urban palace ...

, which fell from grace after the election to the papacy of Innocenzo X. Settling in Paris, he became a trusted man of Cardinal Giulio Mazzarino who made him responsible for organizing parties and supervising court performances. He brought to the French capital the musicians

Luigi Rossi Luigi Rossi (c. 1597 – 20 February 1653) was an Italian Baroque composer. Born in Torremaggiore, a small town near Foggia, in the ancient kingdom of Naples, at an early age he went to Naples where he studied music with the Franco-Flemish comp ...

, Carlo Caproli and Francesco Cavalli, for whom he wrote the librettos for three of the operas given in those years in Paris: ''Orfeo'' (1647), ''Le nozze di Peleo e di Theti'' (1654; music now lost), and ''

Ercole amante ''Ercole amante'' (''Hercules in Love'', French: ''Hercule amoureux'') is an opera in a prologue and five acts by Francesco Cavalli. Its Italian libretto is by Francesco Buti, based on Sophocles' ''The Trachiniae'' and on the ninth book of Ovid ...

'' (1662). He also wrote the lyrics for some ballets by Jean-Baptiste Lully (''L'amour malade'', ''Ballet de l'impatience'').

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Francesco Buti
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Opere di Francesco Buti
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