Contents to KETTERER, "Roma antica e melodramma italiano"

Speranza

1.

"Ancient Rome in Early Opera"


2.

"The Coronation of Poppea"

Busenello/Monteverdi,
L’incoronazione di Poppea

3.

"Scipio in Africa"

Minato/Cavalli, Scipione affricano
4.
"Otho in Arcadia"

Grimani/Handel, Agrippina;

Lalli/Vivaldi, Ottone in villa
5.

"Scipio in Spain"

Zeno, Scipione nelle Spagne

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6.

"The Problem of Caesar"

Haym/Handel, Giulio Cesare in Egitto;
Metastasio/Vivaldi, Il Catone in Utica

7.
"Arminius and the Problem of Rome"

Corradi, Germanico sul Reno; anonymous,
Arminio (London); Salvi/Handel, Arminio
8.
"Clemencies of Titus"

Metastasio, La clemenza di Tito;
Giovannini/Sarti, Giulio Sabino
9.

"The Revolution and the End of a Myth"

Appendix:
Passages from Unpublished Italian Sources