I libretti di Giuseppe Palomba e il teatro comico musicale a Napoli tra Sette e Ottocento

This research is a monography about Giuseppe Palomba, a neapolitan librettist, lived between the eighteenth and nineteenth century. The first part of the thesis reconstructes the musical comic theatre’s history in Naples from 1700 to 1825. Then, after a bibliographic research about the librettist’s Opera, the themes, the structures, the style and the language of a sample of Palomba’s librettos (63 librettos) are analysed in detail. The last section of this work analyses the critically acclaimed librettos derived from Goldoni. On the whole Palomba’s librettos give important information about the greatest opera composers of the era, theatres and impresarios, companies of players, the public tastes, other librettists and finally the Opera’s commerce and exportation in Europe. And from these librettos it is possible to reconstruct a unknown part of musical comic theatre.