The words were a reduced version of I pretendenti delusi (1811) by Giuseppe Mosca (1772-1839).
In 1958, he was one of the co-founders of the permanent international secretariat of the UNIAPAC in Brussels, thogether with Peter H. Werhahn (Germany) and Giuseppe Mosca (Italy), who became its President.
Like his elder brother Giuseppe Mosca (also an opera composer), he studied composition under Fedele Fenaroli.
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