He then began a short association with Handel, in 1713 to 1714, and acted in the first performances of Il pastor fido and Teseo and played Argantes in a revival of Rinaldo.
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His libretto for Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne (Francesco Cavalli, 1640) is heavily based on Giovanni Battista Guarini's Il pastor fido, while L'incoronazione di Poppea (1642), set by Monteverdi, is noted among early libretti for the strength and vividness with which the individual characters are sketched.
Other opera roles have included Silvio in Handel's Il Pastor Fido (Harmonie Universelle), Cupid in John Blow's Venus and Adonis, Spirit in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (Burghley Opera), Tolomeo in Julius Caesar, Arsamenes in Xerxes, Polinesso in Ariodante, and Venus in Pepusch's Venus and Adonis for the Handel House Museum.
Torquato Tasso, Battista Guarini: L'Aminta, e l'amor fuggitivo - Il pastor fido, Vitarelli, 1812.