I've always been struck by the fact that the same textual excerpt appears in Pergolesi's Salustia. Do you think it likely that Varesco knew that libretto?
Could be. But the phrase "ramingo e solo" comes up occasionally in operatic poetry of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and Metastasio himself wrote "n'andrò ramingo e solo" (in Semiramide riconosciuto), so that's another possible source...
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I've always been struck by the fact that the same textual excerpt appears in Pergolesi's Salustia. Do you think it likely that Varesco knew that libretto?
Could be. But the phrase "ramingo e solo" comes up occasionally in operatic poetry of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and Metastasio himself wrote "n'andrò ramingo e solo" (in Semiramide riconosciuto), so that's another possible source...
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