The libretto by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini, dancer, poet and stage manager, brother of the composer Luigi Boccherini, was based on Molière's Les Femmes Savantes (The Learned Ladies).
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Volkmar Braunbehrens, Maligned Master – the Real Story of Antonio Salieri, transl.
John Donne | Concerto delle donne | Donne Wall | The narrator declares that Marcas is "semblable à Pitt, qui s'était donné l'Angleterre pour femme" ("like William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | John Donne's | Je te donne | Il me donne rendez-vous | Elizabeth Trussell's grandfather, Sir John Donne | Dieu m'a donné la foi | Daniel Donne | concerto delle donne |