Scipione affricano

Scipione affricano (Scipio Africanus) is an opera in a prologue and three acts by Francesco Cavalli.

The Italian libretto was by Nicolò Minato, based on Livy's "The Continence of Scipio".

It was first performed in Venice at the Teatro SS.

It was also given in Rome in 1671 with the castrato Giovanni Francesco Grossi as a celebrated Siface.

Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani produced a greatly revised version of the opera for the Carnival of Venice in 1678.