TY - JOUR AU - Badolato, Nicola PY - 2022/12/15 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - «Non ho scritto una tragedia, ma un drama per le scene di Venezia»: i libretti di Adriano Morselli per il San Giovanni Grisostomo (1688-1692) JF - Drammaturgia JA - drammaturgia VL - 19 IS - 9 SE - Essays DO - 10.36253/dramma-14132 UR - https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/drammaturgia/article/view/14132 SP - 53-103 AB - <p class="p1">This paper examines a series of <em>drammi per musica </em>written by Adriano Morselli during the last years of his own career as librettist for the Teatro di S. Giovanni Grisostomo in Venice: <em>Amulio e Numitore</em> (1689), <em>Pirro e Demetrio</em> (1690) and <em>L’incoronazione di Serse</em> (1691), with music by Giuseppe Felice Tosi; <em>La pace fra</em> <em>Tolomeo e Seleuco</em> (1691) and <em>L’Ibraim sultano</em> (1692), with music by Carlo Francesco Pollarolo. Investigating a series of <em>topoi</em> and dramaturgical devices that place this works in the wake of the writing conventions of late seventeenth-century Venetian opera, the paper takes into consideration the dramatic models employed by the poet, with their direct influences from the classical French theatre. This allows us to consider Morselli’s <em>libretti </em>as an example of a poetic trend, only partially studied by theatrologists and musicologists, which flourished in Venetian opera during the last quarter of the 17th century.</p> ER -