The libretto to Armida was by Marco Coltellini the house poet for the imperial theaters.

Armida was translated into German and widely performed, especially in the northern German states, where it helped to establish Salieri's reputation as an important and innovative modern composer It would also be the first opera to receive a serious preparation in a piano and vocal reduction by Carl Friedrich Cramer in 1783.

Armida was soon followed by Salieri's first truly popular success ; a commedia per musica in the style of Carlo Goldoni La fiera di Venezia ( The Fair of Venice ).

His opera ' Rinaldo and Armida ' has recently been published in the Recent Researches of the Music of the Baroque Era series ( A-R Editions ), edited by Steven Plank.

* Armida abbandonata ( Naples, 1770 ) – libretto by Francesco Saverio de ' Rogati

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Casa de Cultura Jesús Reyes Heroles was inhabited by María Concepción Armida, who is being considered for beatification by the Catholic Church.

* Rinaldo in Armida by Josef Mysliveček ( Milan, 1780 )

* Rinaldo in Armida abbandonata by Niccolò Jommelli ( Naples, 1780 )

Rinaldo and Armida, by Francois Boucher, 1734 ; this painting gained Boucher entrance to the Academie ( Louvre Museum )

He contributed to the society's exhibitions upwards of three hundred portraits and other works, among them being " The Enchantress Armida ", exhibited in 1831 ; " Haidee aroused from her Trance by the sound of Music ", 1834 ; " Eros ", 1836 ; " Italian Boys playing at the National Game of Mora " and the " Prisoner of Chillon ", 1837 ; " The Scene in St. Peter's, Rome, from Byron's Deformed Transformed ", 1839 ; " The Convent of St. Isidore: the Monks giving away provisions ", 1841 ; and a " Scene in a Spanish Posada in Andalusia ", 1843.

Rinaldo and Armida, by François Boucher.

The witch Armida ( modeled on Circe in Homer and the witch Alcina in Ariosto's epic ) enters the Christian camp asking for their aid ; her seductions divide the knights against each other and a group leaves with her, only to be transformed into animals by her magic.

Two Christian knights seek out the hidden fortress, brave the dangers that guard it and, by giving Rinaldo a mirror of diamond, force him to see himself in his effeminated and amorous state and to return to the war, leaving Armida heartbroken.

* Armida by Marco Marazzoli ( Ferrara, 1641 )

* Amori di Rinaldo con Armida by Teofilo Orgiani ( Brescia, 1697 ) music lost

* Armida abbandonata by Giovanni Maria Ruggieri ( Venice, 1707 )

* Armida al campo by Giuseppe Boniventi ( Venice, 1708 )

* Armida regina di Damasco by Teofilo Orgiani ( Verona, 1711 ) music lost

* Armida in Damasco by Giacomo Rampini ( Venice, 1711 )

* Armida abbandonata by Giuseppe Maria Buini ( Bologna, 1716 )

* Armida al campo d ' Egitto by Antonio Vivaldi ( Venice, 1718 )

* Armida delusa by Giuseppe Maria Buini ( Venice, 1720 )

* Das eroberte Jerusalem, oder Armida und Rinaldo by Georg Caspar Schurmann ( Brunswick, 1722 )

* Il trionfo di Armida by Tomaso Albinoni ( Venice, 1726 )

* L ' abbandono di Armida by Antonio Pollarolo ( Venice, 1729 )

The person credited with the second vermouth recipe, Antonio Benedetto Carpano from Turin, Italy, chose to name his concoction " vermouth " in 1786 because he was inspired by a German wine flavored with wormwood, a herb most famously used in distilling absinthe.

Initially Sorel had officially been a revisionist of Marxism, but by 1910 announced his abandonment of socialist literature and claimed in 1914, using an aphorism of Benedetto Croce that " socialism is dead " because of the " decomposition of Marxism ".

Starting from 1483 or 1484, by recommendation of Benedetto da Maiano, he apprenticed in the workshop of Cosimo Rosselli.

Archtop guitars can be mass produced, such as the Ibanez Artcore series, or handmade by luthiers such as Robert Benedetto.

* The Manifesto of the Anti-Fascist Intellectuals ( 1925 ), by Benedetto Croce

With no male heirs, he is currently to be succeeded as Duke of Gravina by his unmarried brother Benedetto ( b. 1956 ), then by his cousin Don Raimondo Orsini d ' Aragona ( b. 1931 ), whose heir is Don Lelio Orsini ( b. 1981 ).

Among the seven cardinals created by Martin IV was Benedetto Gaetano, who afterwards ascended the papal throne as the famous Pope Boniface VIII.

There is a legend that Benedetto Gaetani was responsible for Celestine V's renunciation of the papacy by convincing him that no person on the earth could go through life without sin.

However, it is also on record that Celestine V resigned by his own design after consultation with experts, and that Benedetto merely showed that it was allowed by Church law.

A conspiracy against Pius IV, headed by Benedetto Accolti the Younger, the son of a cardinal, was discovered and crushed in 1565.

* The Romanesque Cathedral houses both 12th century sculpture by Benedetto Antelami and a 16th century fresco masterpiece by Antonio da Correggio.

The decline began on 6 August 1284, when the numerically superior fleet of Pisa, under the command of Albertino Morosini, was defeated by the brilliant tactics of the Genoese fleet, under the command of Benedetto Zaccaria and Oberto Doria, in the dramatic naval Battle of Meloria.

In 1626 his father died, and Benedetto began schooling in human sciences taught by the Jesuits at his local college, before transferring to Genoa.

* Il teatro alla moda, a satirical pamphlet by Benedetto Marcello, is published anonymously in Venice.

The Medici's rise to power was chronicled in detail by Benedetto Dei.

Mizar, in the Big Dipper ( Ursa Major ), was observed to be double by Giovanni Battista Riccioli in 1650 ( and probably earlier by Benedetto Castelli and Galileo ).

Mizar, in Ursa Major, was observed to be double by Giovanni Battista Riccioli in 1650 ( and probably earlier by Benedetto Castelli and Galileo ).

The popularity of the story was bolstered by the powerful philosopher-critic Benedetto Croce who greatly admired the tale.

After the two are freed by " Lord Wilmore ", Benedetto is sponsored by the Count to take the identity of " Viscount Andrea Cavalcanti " and is introduced by him into Parisian society at the same dinner party, with neither Villefort nor Madame Danglars suspecting that Andrea is their presumed dead son.