Luigi (Alvise) Giusti (Venice, 1709 – Vienna, 1766) was an Italian lawyer, poet, and librettist. He is often confused with his uncle,

Girolamo Giusti Girolamo Giusti (1703 – ?) was an Italian librettist and composer. He is often confused with his uncle, Alvise Giusti (1709–1766) an Italian lawyer, poet, and librettist, who also wrote libretti. Between them, they produced at least four, altho ...

(1703 – ?), who also wrote libretti. Between them, they produced at least four, although it has been unclear which Giusti wrote which libretto, and sometimes they have wrongly been assumed to be the same person. In the past, the libretto for Vivaldi's 1733 opera ''

Motezuma ''Motezuma'', RV 723, is an opera in three acts by Antonio Vivaldi with an Italian libretto by Alvise Giusti. The libretto is very loosely based on the life of the Aztec ruler Montezuma who died in 1520. The first performance was given in the ...

'' had been attributed to Girolamo on the basis of a later archivist handwriting the name on a printed copy. However, according to Michael Talbot writing in ''The Vivaldi Compendium'', "the scholarly consensus is that Alvise is at least the author of the libretto for Vivaldi's ''Motezuma''."Talbot, Michael (2011
''The Vivaldi Compendium''
p. 89. Boydell Press

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