Girolamo Frigimelica Roberti

Girolamo Frigimelica Roberti (10 January 1653 - 15 November 1732) was an Italian architect, librettist, and poet.

[1] Born in Padua to a father who had married into the noble Robert family, thus gaining a title of Count for his son.

His first 11 texts were written for the Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo of Venice, and set to music between 1694 and 1708 by Carlo Francesco Pollarolo, Alessandro Scarlatti, Antonio Caldara, and Luigi Mancia.

[1] He worked in a style of opera seria similar to Apostolo Zeno, Francesco Silvani, and Adriano Morselli.

His libretti consisted of five acts and were about historic and mythologic subjects, and were called tragedies or tragic-comedies.