Giovanni Andrea Moneglia
Giovanni Andrea Moneglia (also Moniglia ) (born March 22, 1625 in Florence , † September 21, 1700 in Prato ) was an Italian doctor , playwright and librettist of the Baroque .
Life
Moneglia was first educated by Jesuits in his hometown before continuing his studies in Pisa , where he completed his studies in medicine and philosophy on April 2, 1645. Around 1649 he was accepted into the Accademia degli Apatisti . Cardinal Giancarlo de 'Medici recommended Moneglia for a chair in medicine at the University of Pisa, but he did not get it. On March 15, 1656, Moneglia was appointed doctor to Cardinal Medici with a salary of 10 scudi per month. During this time Moneglia's activity began as a theater poet for the cardinal.
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On January 4, 1663, Moneglia accompanied Cardinal Giovan Carlo de 'Medici to the villa in Castello, where the rehearsals for his new civic drama La vedova, ovvero Amore vuole ingegno were to take place. The cardinal, his great sponsor, died on January 23, 1663, so the performance did not take place.
At the request of Leopoldo de 'Medici , Moneglia wrote the libretto Semiramide , which was set to music by Antonio Cesti . Originally commissioned for the wedding of Archduke Sigismund von Habsburg , which should have taken place in September 1665. Due to his unexpectedly early death, the opera was only performed in Vienna on June 9, 1667 in the court theater .
For the wedding of Johann Georg III. , Elector of Saxony, with Anne Sophia , Crown Princess of Denmark, which took place on October 9, 1666, he was commissioned to write the libretto for the opera Il teseo , which Pietro Andrea Ziani set to music . With the opera, the opera house on the Taschenberg was reopened in Dresden on January 27, 1667 .
On October 22nd, 1667 he went on a trip to Germany accompanied by Prince Cosimo . A diary in verse has been preserved from this journey.
In 1681 he received a chair in medicine at the University of Pisa . Ten years later his son Niccolò Maria died, in July 1692 his wife, Ottavia di Sebastiano Morando. In the same year he was accepted into the Accademia dell'Arcadia under the name Nardilo Azonio .
The Moneglia died on September 21, 1700 in his home in Prato near Florence.
Work (selection)
- L'Apollo (Medical Treatise)
- Laurindo (three prose acts with prologue and interludes)
- Diary of the trip to Germany
- L'Ergirodo under the name or Gelinio Valgemma Adriano 1652 (libretto)
- Il potestà di Colognole (music: Jacopo Melani ) 1657
- Scipione in Carthage 1657 (libretto for the opera)
- Laurindo (play)
- La forza del destino 1658 (Comedy)
- Hipermestra 1658 (libretto for the opera)
- Il pazzo per forza (1658) (music: Jacopo Melani )
- Il vecchio balordo (1659) (music: Jacopo Melani)
- La serva nobile (1661) (music: Domenico Anglesi )
- Il mondo festeggiante (ballet on horseback, 1661) (music: Domenico Anglesi)
- Ercole in Tebe (1661) (Music: Jacopo Melani)
- Il potestà di Colognole (Libretto for the opera 1661)
- La vedova, ovvero Amore vuole ingegno (Drama 1663)
- La schiava fortunata (libretto for the opera 1674)
- Il teseo (libretto for the opera 1667)
- Il ritorno d'Ulisse (1667) (music: Jacopo Melani)
- Enea in Italia (1670) (music: Jacopo Melani)
- Tacere et amare (1674) (Music: Jacopo Melani)
- Il Germanico al Reno play
- La Giocasta (1677) (Music: Antonio Cesti )
- Quinto Lucrezio proscritto (1681) (music: Lorenzo Cattani )
- Ifianassa and Melampo (1685) (Music: Giovanni L Limiti )
- Il tiranno di Colco (1685) (Music: Giovanni Maria Pagliardi )
- Gneo Marzio Coriolano (1686) (music: Lorenzo Cattani)
- Il pazzo per forza (1687) (music: Giovanni Maria Pagliardi)
- Dramatic poems 1689-90
- Oratorio for St. Geneviefa (music: Lorenzo Cattani)
- Hymn for S. Rinieri, the patron saint of Pisa
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- Biography in the Dizionario-Biografico of the Istituto Giovanni Treccani in Milan
- Charles Peter Brand, Peter Brand, Lino Pertile (Eds.): The Cambridge History of Italian Literature. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1996. p. 331.
- Katja Seidel: Girolamo Porto's report from his trip to southern Germany and Austria. Edition of the manuscripts from 1709, 1710 and 1715 with commentary on the history of the language. Logos, Berlin 2014, p. 17. ISBN 978-3-8325-3617-6
- Herbert Seifert: Texts on musical drama in the 17th and 18th centuries: essays and lectures. Hollitzer, Vienna 2014. ISBN 978-3-99012-178-8
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moneglia, Giovanni Andrea |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Moniglia, Giovanni Andrea |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian lebrettist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 22, 1625 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Florence |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 21, 1700 |
| Place of death | Prato (Tuscany) |