Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino wrote the text for the comic opera "Calandro" by Giovanni Alberto Ristori, which was first staged in 1726 at the castle of Pilnitz near Dresden, and then in Moscow in 1731 when it was the first opera ever performed in Russia. He later composed the libretto for the five-act opera seria "Alfonso" (1738) by Johann Adolf Hasse. He was also known for his translations of Horace's Odes, Epistles and Satires. Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino (21 March 1672, Padua – 16 April 1742, Dresden) was an Italian poet and opera librettist. He was the son of the composer Carlo
Christian Falster Christian Falster Christian Falster (January 1, 1690 – October 24, 1752) was a Danish poet and philologist, born at Branderslev (island of Laaland). He became rector of the school at Ribe. He preferred to live there, refusing to accept better positions, and keeping his rectorship. He published translations of Ovid (1719) and the Satires of Juvenal (1731); 11 original satires on his times, often reprinted (1720–39); and in Latin a number of works, such as "Viglia Prima Noctium Ripensiun" (1721); "Memori Obscur (1722); Amnitates Philologic" (three volumes, 1821–32). The editors of "The Classical Journal" wrote that: Falster thought that all