Domenico Antonio Mele

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Domenico Antonio Mele (born July 16, 1647 in Acquaviva delle Fonti , † September 23, 1723 in Naples ) was an Italian poet and librettist .

Life

Mele was an Apulian intellectual and performed several of his specially written librettos on many festive occasions for the Lords of Puglia in the courts of the late seventeenth century. This bears witness to a “theatrical life” in Puglia, as other intellectuals, such as musicians, painters and poets, from other cities such as Rome, Naples and Milan often came to these occasions. He was a member of the Accademia dei Ravvivati of Acquaviva delle Fonti, the Accademia dei Pigri of Bari and the Accademia degli Spensierati of Rossano . Mele experimented with many literary genres, such as prose, musical theater, sacred and profane theater, the lyric subject, and religious literature of magical and scientific subject (Il Proteo is an example). Mele died in Naples on September 23, 1723.

Music theater with the Princes De Mari

Entrance of the Palazzo De Mari-Alberotanza

In 1682 he was commissioned to compose the anti-prologue Acquaviva laureata with the music of Giovanni Cesare Netti, often organist of the Royal Naples Chapel. He staged this for the first time at the Palazzo De Mari Theater at the wedding of Giovanni Battista de Mari (eldest son of Carlo and Geronima Doria, the princely couple Acquaviva) and Laura Doria.

Works

Dramas

  • Acquaviva laureata
  • La perdita di Nereo e Dori
  • Le nozze di Alfeo con Aretusa
  • Le metamorfosi delle stagioni
  • Li svantaggi di Ippomene ed Atalanta
  • Le nozze di Iocasta
  • Il più bel fregio del cielo, ovvero il sacro abitino del Carmine

Poems

  • Il proteo

Intermezzi

  • Le gare degli elementi
  • La Sfinge
  • Raspa raspa , Bu bu , Cu cu
  • Il ballo della figlia di Erodiade
  • L'ubriachezza di Loth

literature

  • Mele, Domenico. In: Archivio Biografico Italiano, Index.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Netti, Giovanni Cesare. In: Dizionario Biografico - Treccani. Retrieved August 20, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Mele, Domenico Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian poet and librettist
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1647
PLACE OF BIRTH Acquaviva delle Fonti
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1723
Place of death Naples