Autorialità e autorità del libretto di ballo del secondo Settecento: problematiche e prospettive di studio

Abstract

This essay focus his attention on Italian ballet librettos of the second half of Eighteenth-century. The author gathers Italians librettos of Giuseppe Canziani, Antonio Muzzarelli, Onorato Viganò e Francesco Clerico from 1769 to 1810 in order to outline the main features of this source and, at the same time, to deal with some of the methodological problems related to his use.