Antonio Muscettola

Antonio Muscettola, Duke of Spezzano (25 January 1628 — 21 October 1679), was a Neapolitan nobleman and writer.

[2] Muscettola was a copious writer of lyrics, tragedies, prose discourses, and didactic verse letters.

The second part of his Poems and the poetry collection Il gabinetto delle Muse, inspired by Marino's Galeria,[1] were printed in 1669 by Zaccaria Conzatti, Venice.

[2] In 1677 he published under the pseudonym of Costantino Vatelmo the comedy Rosaura ovvero l’innamorata scaltra (Naples, Antonio Bulifon).

[1] Muscettola managed to imitate both Marino and Chiabrera, favouring a mild sententiousness founded on antithesis rather than extended metaphor.