Sebastiano Biancardi (27 March 1679 – 9 October 1741), known by the pseudonym Domenico Lalli, 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 ...

. 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

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'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.

Biography

Coat of arms of the Banco della Santissima Annunziata, Naples (1587-1794)

Early life

Modern accounts of Lalli's life prior to arriving in Venice are largely based on a biography included in a book of poetry which he published in 1732. The biography was written by the Venetian poet Giovanni Boldini who collaborated with Lalli on several of his libretti.Tavazzi, Valeria (2014)
''Carlo Goldoni dal San Samuele al "Teatro comico"''
pp. 49–81. Accademia University Press A further biography of Lalli by Andrea Mazzarella was published in 1818 in ''Biografia degli uomini illustri del Regno di Napoli''. Sebastiano Biancardi, as he was then known, was born in Naples to Caterina (''née'' Amendola) and Michele Biancardi. His father's family were originally merchants from Milan who had moved to Naples in the Middle Ages. At the age of 11 months, he was adopted by Fulvio Caracciolo, a member of a Neapolitan noble family and the second son of the Duke of Martina. Under Caracciolo he was educated in law and literature and was exposed to many prominent Neapolitan intellectuals, such as

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, who frequented the house. His adoptive father died in 1692, leaving Biancardi as his sole heir. At the age of 18, with both his natural and adoptive parents dead, he married Giustina Baroni. According to a late 18th-century biography of Lalli by Eustachio D'Afflitto, she was the sister of the Bishop of Calvi.D'Afflitto, Eustachio (1794)
"Biancardi (Sebastiano)"
''Memorie degli scrittori del Regno di Napoli'', Vol, 2, pp. 118–125. Stamperia Simoniana By 1700, Biancardi had gone through most of his inheritance and with an ever-growing family to support took up a post as chief cashier at the bank of the Santissima Annunziata.''

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'' (1968)
"Biancardi, Sebastiano"
Vol. 10. Treccani. Online version retrieved 15 March 2015 .Strohm, Reinhard (1995)
"The Neapolitans in Venice"
in Ian Fenlon ''et al.'' (eds.) ''Con Che Soavità: Studies in Italian Opera, Song, and Dance, 1580–1740'', pp. 255–257, 269. Oxford University Press

Flight from Naples

In 1706 a large amount of money was found to be missing from the Santissima Annunziata's funds, and Biancardi was eventually suspected of embezzlement. Leaving his wife and 13 children behind, he fled Naples for Rome. There he befriended Emanuele d'Astorga, a composer and son of a Sicilian aristocrat, who used Biancardi's poems as texts for several of his cantatas and

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s. Over the next two years Biancardi and d'Astorga wandered through Italy together. Left destitute after they were robbed by their servant in Genoa, they managed to scrape together some money when d'Astorga set a libretto for an impresario of the opera house there. They then headed for Venice, but fearful that their servant was still pursuing them they changed their names. D'Astorga became "Giuseppe del Chiaro". Biancardi became "Domenico Lalli", the name by which he was known for the rest of his career and which appears in the Venetian records of his second marriage.Boldini, Giovanni (1732)
"Compendio della Vita del Sig. Bastian Bìiancardi Napoletano, detto Domenico Lallí"
in ''Rime di Bastian Biancardi''. Giuseppe Lovisa On their way to Venice, they were arrested and imprisoned for not having passports and passing themselves off as Romans. They were only freed after Lalli wrote a letter to the Governor of Milan, recounting the robbery by their servant and their subsequent misfortunes. They arrived in Venice in 1709 and made the acquaintance of the influential poet and librettist Apostolo Zeno. This was accomplished by d'Astorga writing a fake letter to Zeno purporting to be from Baron d'Astorga in Palermo and recommending to him two young men in need of patronage—"Giuseppe del Chiaro, ''

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''", and "Domenico Lalli, professor of literature and lute player". Lalli and d'Astorga then spent some time in

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under their new identities, but remained in constant fear that visitors from Rome would recognize them. D'Astorga left for Barcelona when he was offered a post at the court of

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, and Lalli returned to Venice. Rime di Bastian Biancardi - title page 1732

Venetian career

According to Mazzarella's 1818 biography of Lalli, on his return to Venice he recited some of his poetry to Zeno and asked for his opinion. Zeno recognized the poems which had been published several years earlier in Naples and said that while the poetry had merit, Lalli was either a plagiarist or was actually Sebastiano Biancardi. At this point, Lalli revealed his true identity to Zeno and confessed to the reason he had left Naples. Zeno took him under his wing and introduced him to the

who hired Lalli to assist in the management of their theatres ( Teatro San Samuele and

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) and to re-work older libretti for new productions. He eventually became the Grimani "house poet". Musicologist and historian Reinhard Strohm, described Lalli's role in the Venetian theatres, and especially those of the Grimani family, as "resourceful poet and hack, theatre manager and career-maker." According to Strohm, he proved particularly useful in obtaining the latest libretti written by

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for Rome, slightly revising them and having them set by another composer for a rival production in Venice. In one case, he managed to do this even before the Rome premiere. Metastasio's '' Ezio'' had its official premiere in Rome on 26 December 1728 with music by Pietro Auletta. However, a setting by

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of the slightly altered libretto had premiered at the Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo a month earlier. The Venetian version carried a dedication written by Lalli to Count Harrach, the Austrian viceroy of Naples. Lalli's first original opera libretto, ''L'amor tirannico'' ("Tyrannical Love") was performed with music by

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in 1710 at the

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in Venice. ''L'amor tirranico'' had considerable success and was also performed in Milan in 1713 and again in Venice in 1722. His comic opera ''Elisa'' with music by Giovanni Maria Ruggieri followed in 1711. According to Giovanni Carlo Bonlini, it was the first ''

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'' to be presented in Venice.Selfridge-Field, Eleanor (2007)
''A New Chronology of Venetian Opera and Related Genres, 1660–1760''
pp. 298, 306, 324, 328, 334, 338, 343, 433, 615. Stanford University Press In the ensuing years he went on to produce the libretti for numerous ''

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'', including at least five for

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, three for

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and two for Alessandro Scarlatti. Writing in 1811, Pietro Napoli-Signorelli described '' Tigrane'', the first libretto Lalli wrote for Scarlatti, as "full of oddities and fantasy" and displaying "great inventiveness in its design". Lalli became very well connected to figures in the intellectual and theatrical life of Venice and to the aristocrats who patronized its theatres. Zeno jokingly referred to the gatherings at Lalli's house as the "Accademia Lalliana" ("Lallian

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"). Lalli was also a member of an actual academy, the Accademia degli Arcadi. The academy's pan pipe symbol appears on the title pages of some of his published poetry, and two of his

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(''La cantatrice'' and ''Il tropotipo'') were published under his arcadian name "Ortanio". In 1723, in addition to his work for the Venetian theatres, Lalli became the court poet for Maximilian Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria and later his son

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. He wrote numerous poems and several libretti for royal celebrations in Bavaria, including ''I veri amici'' with music by Albinoni for the wedding celebrations of Carl Albert to Maria Amalia of Austria in 1722. The opera was performed again in Venice the following year, in a slightly revised version. He also worked with

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, who was the ''maestro di cappella'' of the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, writing the libretti for two of Caldara's operas presented at the court theatre there. Apart from his libretti, Lalli also published poetry and prose works in Venice under his real name. He brought out a collection of twenty sonnets in praise of Francesco del Giudice in 1715 and two volumes of his collected poetry, ''Rime di Bastian Biancardi'' and '' Rime berniesche di Bastian Biancardi'' in 1732. Most of the work in the 1732 collections was new, but they also included a few poems previously published in Naples, including one on the death of his adoptive father, Fulvio Caracciolo. Lalli's Italian translation of Rousset de Missy's history of Russia during the reign of Catherine the Great, ''Memorie del regno di Catterina imperadrice e sovrana di tutta la Russia'', was published in 1730.

Final years

Santa Maria Formosa, Venice, by Bellotto circa 1742 - detail

By the mid-1730s, Lalli's career as a librettist was waning, and he was eventually replaced by Goldoni as the director of the Grimani theatres. After the death of his first wife, he had married a Venetian woman, Barbara Pazini, who provided him with many more children to support. He eked out a living writing dedications to illustrious theatre patrons on re-worked libretti, brought out collections of Biblical proverbs and parables translated into verse, and with the help of his close friend and fellow Neapolitan exile

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wrote a collection of biographies of the

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which he published in 1737. Goldoni's contemporary,

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, lamented that Lalli's financial predicament was commonplace for those working in the arts in 18th-century Venice and described him as a man "who was born rich and died a poet". Lalli himself alluded to these problems in several poems in his 1732 ''Rime berniesche''. The restoration of the Bourbon king Charles VII to the throne of Naples in 1735, raised Lalli's hopes of being able to return to his native city. In 1738 he wrote the libretto for ''Partenope nell'Adria'', a serenata composed by Ignazio Fiorillo celebrating the marriage of Charles to

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and described himself on the title page as the King's "fedelissimo vassallo" ("most faithful

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"). The following year he published a continuation of his biographies of the kings of Naples concentrating on the "gloriosa persona di Don Carlo di Borbone" ("the glorious figure of

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Charles of Bourbon"). He repeatedly petitioned the king for a royal pardon allowing him to return to Naples but without success. Lalli died in poverty in Venice at the age of 62 and was buried in the

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Libretti

According to Reinhard Strohm, at least 22 original or significantly re-worked opera libretti can be attributed to Lalli. Apart from his 1711 comic opera ''Elisa'' and four comic

, the remainder of the opera libretti attributed to him are all in the '' opera seria'' and ''

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'' genres. Lalli also wrote texts and libretti for several musical works in other genres: cantatas,

s, and '' azioni sacri'' (stage works on religious subjects and precursors of the

oratorio An oratorio () is a large musical composition for orchestra, choir, and soloists. Like most operas, an oratorio includes the use of a choir, soloists, an instrumental ensemble, various distinguishable characters, and arias. However, opera is ...

L'amor di figlio non conosciuto, title page, 1716

The attribution of some of Lalli's opera libretti is complicated by the fact that from 1728 he often collaborated with Giovanni Boldini. In some cases the libretti are listed as jointly authored. In other cases there is disagreement as to whether Lalli or Boldini was the author, e.g. the libretto for ''L'Issipile'' set by

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in 1732 and that for ''Artaserse'' set by Adolph Hasse in 1730. Some libretti by Lalli and/or Boldini were primarily re-workings of libretti by other authors although with the text much changed, as was the case with Hasse's 1730 ''Artaserse'' based on a libretto by

. Lalli's own libretti were often reworked to a greater or lesser extent by other librettists, including his ''Amor tirranico'' originally set by

in 1710 and reworked with minor changes by Nicola Haym for Handel's '' Radamisto''. Others were set by multiple composers under different titles. His libretto, ''Il gran Mogol'', was set by 5 different composers (including Vivaldi) between 1714 and 1733.Freeman, Daniel E. (1992)
''The Opera Theater of Count Franz Anton Von Sporck in Prague''
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Opera

*''L'amor tirranico'', music attributed to

, Venice, 1710 *''Elisa'', music attributed to Giovanni Maria Ruggieri, Teatro Sant'Angelo, Venice, 1711 *'' Ottone in villa'', music by Antonio Vivaldi, Teatro delle Grazie,

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, 1713Strohm, Reinhard (1985)
''Essays on Handel and Italian Opera''
p. 141. Cambridge University Press *''Il gran Mogol'', music by Francesco Mancini,

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, Naples, December 1713. **Re-set as '' Argippo'' by

, Teatro San Cassiano, Venice, autumn 1717. **Libretto revised by Claudio Nicola Stampa, set by Vivaldi as ''Argippo'', RV 697-A,

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, Vienna, 1730 (music lost). **Variant of the previous libretto, ''Argippo'', RV 697-B, set by Vivaldi, Sporck Theater,

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, autumn 1730 (music lost). **

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, ''Argippo'', RV Anh. 137: Vivaldi's setting of some of the text based on Lalli's libretto has been preserved. *''Pisistrato'', music by

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, Teatro San Bartolomeo, Naples, 1714 *'' Tigrane'', music by Alessandro Scarlatti, Teatro San Bartolomeo, Naples, 1715.Sadie, Julie Anne (1998)
''Companion to Baroque Music''
pp. 78, 487. University of California Press *''L'amor di figlio non conosciuto'', music by

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, Teatro San'Angelo, Venice, 1716 *'' Arsilda, regina di Ponto'', music by Antonio Vivaldi, Teatro San'Angelo, Venice, 1716 *'' Farnace'', music by

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, Teatro San Cassiano, Venice, 1718 *''Il Lamano'' , music by Michelangelo Gasparini,

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, Venice, 1718 *''Il Cambise'', music by Alessandro Scarlatti, Teatro San Bartolomeo, Naples, 1719 *''La Candace, o siano Li veri amici'', music by Antonio Vivaldi, court theatre, Mantua, 1720 *''Filippo re di Macedonia'', music by Antonio Vivaldi, Teatro Sant'Angelo, Venice, 1720 *''Gli eccessi dell'infedeltà'', music by

, court theatre,

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, 1720 *''Il Farasmane'', music by Giuseppe Maria Orlandini, Teatro Formagliari,

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, 1720 *''Gli eccessi della gelosia'', music by Tomaso Albinoni, Teatro Sant'Angelo, Venice, 1722 *''I veri amici'', music by Tomaso Albinoni, court theatre, Munich, 1722 (commissioned for the wedding celebrations of Carl Albert of Bavaria to Maria Amalia of Austria) *''Camaide, imperatore della China'', music by Antonio Caldara, court theatre, Salzburg, 1722 (Lalli also wrote two comic intermezzi for this performance, ''La marchesina di Nanchin'' and ''Il conte di Pelusio''.) *''Damiro e Pitia'', music by

, court theatre, Munich, 1724 (commissioned to celebrate the

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of Maximilian Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria) *''La Mariane'', music by Giovanni Porta, Teatro Sant'Angelo, Venice 1725Talbot, Michael (2002)
''The Business of Music''
p. 55. Liverpool University Press *''Ulisse'', music by Giovanni Porta, Teatro Sant'Angelo, Venice 1725 *''Imeneo in Atene'', music by Nicola Porpora, Teatro San Samuele, Venice, 1726 *''Turia Lucrezia'', music by Antonio Pollarolo, Teatro Sant'Angelo, Venice 1725 *''L' Epaminonda'', music by

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, court theatre, Munich, 1727 (commissioned to celebrate the birth of Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria)Basso, Alberto (1996). ''Musica in scena'', Vol. 3, p. 40. UTET *''Nicomede'', music by Pietro Torri, court theatre, Munich, 1728 (commissioned to celebrate the arrival of

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in Munich) *''Edippo'', music by Pietro Torri, court theatre, Munich, 1729 (commissioned to celebrate the birthday of Maria Amalia) *''Argene'', music by Leonardo Leo,

, Venice 1728 (the opera proved very popular and played throughout the carnival season. Leo composed a new setting of it for performance in Naples in 1731). *''Il Tamese'', music by

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, Teatro San Bartolomeo, Naples, 1729 (performed with the three-part dramatic intermezzo, ''Il vedovo'', also by Lalli) *''Dalisa'' (after

Nicolò Minato Count Nicolò Minato (b. Bergamo, ca. 1627; d. Vienna, 28 February 1698) was an Italian poet, librettist and impresario. His career can be divided into two parts: the years he spent at Venice, from 1650 to 1669, and the years at Vienna, from 1669 un ...

), music by

Johann Adolf Hasse Johann Adolph Hasse (baptised 25 March 1699 – 16 December 1783) was an 18th-century German composer, singer and teacher of music. Immensely popular in his time, Hasse was best known for his prolific operatic output, though he also composed a co ...

, Teatro San Samuele, Venice, 1730Strohm, Reinhard (1997)
''Dramma Per Musica: Italian Opera Seria of the Eighteenth Century''
pp. 76, 79. Yale University Press

Other genres

Ritratto dell' eroe by Domenico Lalli - title page 1726

*''Calisto in orsa'' (

for four voices), composer unknown, Venice 1714 *''Scherza di fronda'' ( cantata), music by Antonio Vivaldi, Venice, circa 1721Talbot, Michael (2006)
''The Chamber Cantatas of Antonio Vivaldi''
p. 72. Boydell Press *''La senna festeggiante'' (serenata for three voices), music by Antonio Vivaldi, Venice, 1726 (According to Vivaldi scholar Michael Talbot, the context of the performance is unclear—either in honour of the

of the King of France in August, or the arrival in Venice of the French ambassador, Jacques-Vincent Languet in November.) *''Il ritratto dell'eroe'' (cantata for five voices), music by

, Venice, 1726 (performed in celebration of the return to Venice of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni) *''La Fenice'' (cantata for three voices), music by

Giovanni Battista Costanzi Giovanni Battista Costanzi (1704-1778) was an Italian composer and cellist. He succeeded Stefano Fabri as ''maestro di cappella'' of the Cappella Giulia at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Also known as teacher of Luigi Boccherini Ridolfo Luigi B ...

, Venice 1726 *''L' Abramo'' ( azione sacra), composer unknown, Venice 1733 *''Il peccato originale'' (azione sacra), composer unknown, Venice 1736 *''Partenope nell'Adria'' (serenata), music by Ignazio Fiorillo, Venice, 1738 (performed in celebration of the marriage of Charles VII to

, commissioned by the Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.)Isman, Fabio (ed.) (2010)
''Venzialtrove: Almanacco della presenza di Venezia nel mondo''
p. 20. Fondazione Venezia. Retrieved 25 March 2015 . *''L' Abel'' (azione sacra), composer unknown, Venice, 1738 *''Decreto del fato'' (serenata for 4 voices), music by Domenico Paradies, Spanish Embassy, Venice, 1740 (performed in celebration of the marriage of Prince Philip of Spain)

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Combined list of works by Domenico Lalli/Sebastiano Biancardi held in Italian libraries
(annotated) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lalli, Domenico 1679 births 1741 deaths Italian opera librettists Italian poets Italian male poets Italian male dramatists and playwrights