Il libertino e il cavaliere. «L’Orlando furioso» di Giambattista Casti

[Machine translation] The contribution examines the libretto for music L'Orlando furioso, written at the end of the 18th century by Giambattista Casti, a Caesarean poet at the Habsburg court in Vienna. In the booklet, which has not been set to music and has remained unpublished for a long time, the libertine poet rewrites the central episode of the Ariostesco poem, combining substantial fidelity to the plot with a radical ideological rethinking, which translates into a smiling satire, in the light of his rationalist and pacifist principles, of the heroic universe of the ancient knights.