The Marriage of Figaro (play)
The play formed the basis for an opera with a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte and music by Mozart, also called "The Marriage of Figaro" (1786). In 1799, another opera based on the same play, "La pazza giornata, ovvero Il matrimonio di Figaro", was produced in Venice with libretto by Gaetano Rossi and music by Marcos Portugal.
Francesco Palmieri (poet)
During the 1690s, he moved to Hanover. He wrote the libretto, and perhaps also the music, of a large-scale cantata ("Accademia per musica") which was performed on 1 November 1695, to celebrate the marriage of Princess Charlotte Felicitas of Brunswick-Lüneburg to Duke Rinaldo I of Modena. The score is lost, but it appears from the libretto to have comprised seventeen numbers for five characters (Clio, Gloria, Giunone, Amore and Fato). Palmieri (also known as "Count Palmieri"), wrote the libretto of "Briseide", the opera by Pietro Torri and Agostino Steffani, performed during carnival, 1696. From that yer, when Steffani was continually away on diplomatic duties, Palmieri was general manager of music at the court of Hanover.