Carlo Sigismondo Capece


Carlo Sigismondo Capece was an Italian dramatist and librettist. Capece was court poet to Queen Maria Casimira of Poland, who was living in exile in Rome, and is best remembered today for the libretto of La resurrezione a sacred oratorio by George Frideric Handel. He also provided the Libretto for operas including Domenico Scarlatti's Tolomeo e Alessandro and Ifigenia in Aulide, as well as Caldara's Tito e Berenice.