Antonio Simeone Sografi, also known as Antonio Simon, or just Antonio (July 29, 1759 - January 4, 1818), was an Italian librettist and playwright.

After studying and graduating in his home town of Padua, he went to Venice, where he devoted himself to writing comedies and farces, as well as both humorous and serious text for major opera composers of the time. He was an active libretto from 1789 to 1816. It also produced texts for cantatas, oratorios, dramas and sacred compositions. Unlike most of his contemporaries, Sografi called his funny booklets "comedies", rather playful dramas; this because he followed the style of the character comedies of Goldoni and refused the too obvious comedy of art comedies.

He was the brother of the surgeon Pietro Sografi.[1] He died in Padua.

Libretti for operas

Libretti for cantatas, oratori, and others

  • Pimmalione (scena drammatica, after Jean-Jacques Rousseau; music by Giovanni Battista Cimador, 1790)
  • Eurilla (cantata; music by Sebastiano Nasolini, 1794)
  • La distruzione di Gerusalemme (dramma sacro; music by Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi, 1803)
  • Inno alla pace (cantata; music by Antonio Calegari, 1809)
  • L'omaggio del cuore (componimento drammatico; music by Antonio Calegari, 1815)

Comedies

  • Le convenienze teatrali (1794)
  • Le inconvenienze teatrali (1800)

References

  1. ↑ Dizionario biografico universale, Volume 5, by Felice Scifoni, Publisher Davide Passagli, Florence (1849); page 177.
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